298 na lisensyadong POGO, nabistong criminal activites pala ang ginagawa | The Mangahas Interviews
Ayon kay PAGCOR Chairperson Alejandro Tengco, aabot sa 298 na POGO ang naabutan niya na mayroong lisensyang mag-operate pero nabistong hindi na pala sa gaming operations involved kundi sa criminal activities kagaya ng credit card fraud, investment scams at love match scam. Panoorin ang video. #TheMangahasInterviews
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00:00Do you have a detailed plan, step-by-step, on how to close down Pogo?
00:06The good news, to answer your question, just this afternoon, we held a meeting of the Department of Labor and Employment.
00:18Okay.
00:19It was led by Secretary Benindig-Rizman.
00:24As you may remember, the President's order was not limited to Pagpor.
00:31After he announced and said that he will instruct Pagpor to wind down Pogo's operations,
00:45there was a pandemonium inside the Congress.
00:49But the next thing he said was that he will instruct DOLE and my economic managers to talk about how we can minimize the losses of our Filipino workers.
01:14Okay.
01:15It was led by Secretary Benindig-Rizman.
01:16Okay.
01:17He was with DOLE's director in NCR, Director Bambi, and his two assets, Pagpor's head of the Overseas Gaming Licensing Department and the OIC of Pagpor's legal department.
01:44Let's talk about how many numbers are involved.
01:47How many Pogos will be closed and how many winding down processes?
01:55How will they be able to say, sorry guys, time's up?
01:59Okay.
02:00First, I want to clarify.
02:03The ban that the President ordered is for all and not just for Pogo.
02:13I want to clarify first.
02:17Maybe in the middle of last year, 2023, we should have declared in the probationary status,
02:29the 200 Pogos were closed, more or less.
02:33I have reached the limit.
02:37That's 498. That's what I have reached.
02:42Okay.
02:43After the follow-up, after the negotiation, we saw that the licensees that I'm referring to, 200, were not involved in the gaming operations.
03:05More or less.
03:07What they are doing is not gaming anymore.
03:10It's a criminal activity.
03:12Okay.
03:13Credit card fraud is there.
03:15Investment scams are there.
03:19They are soliciting investment from senior citizens, not only from the Philippines, but also from America, Japan, China, and other countries.
03:32All right. Okay.
03:34Third, they have a love match where the Filipinos are in love with a foreigner.
03:43There's nothing they can do if the foreigner they're in love with is not a fraud.
03:54So after we saw that, we immediately decided to declare the probationary status of all.
04:05Of all, 290 plus.
04:08Okay. That was last January, a little less than that.
04:11We asked them to reapply again.
04:16Okay.
04:17Because we saw, and aside from that, we changed the balance and guidelines of overseas gaming licenses.
04:31Because the image of the term POGO is very bad, we should have rebranded it.
04:42IGL.
04:43That's why it became Internet Gaming Licenses.
04:47So that way, we're able to distinguish between the legal and the illegals.
04:55Okay. So it's confusing, 38, 41, 290 plus.
05:01The explanation for now is that when we purged the list, the number decreased to 46.
05:1146. Okay.
05:13If it's 46, the monitoring and enforcement will be suspended.
05:20Three of them are currently suspended.
05:23That's why we're talking about 43 now.
05:31All of them have licenses that we call Internet Gaming Licenses.