Lapu-Lapu City mayor shuts down 6 businesses operating in Cebu POGO hub

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Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan orders the immediate closure of six business establishments raided for allegedly being part of an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator hub.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/visayas/lapu-lapu-city-mayor-junard-chan-shuts-down-businesses-cebu-pogo-september-2024/

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00:00Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard Chan ordered the immediate closure of six business establishments

00:06raided for allegedly being part of an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator hub.

00:11This days after authorities rescued 162 foreign nationals from the Tourist Garden Hotel on

00:16Saturday, August 31.

00:18Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission Spokesperson Winston Cacho says initial reports

00:22of the pogo hub stemmed from a request from the Indonesian embassy.

00:26Officials from the National Bureau of Investigation, Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking,

00:31and the Department of Justice worked on the Indonesians' rescue.

00:34We were just here to rescue the Indonesian nationals, so when we arrived here, in flagrantly

00:39delicto, caught in the act, we saw that there were scam farms here.

00:45Paok says there were 162 foreign nationals and five Filipinos found working in three

00:50different scam work areas.

00:51Based on initial interviews, the pogo hub has five administrators that came all the

00:55way from Pampanga after escaping raids conducted there.

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