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Transcript
00:00While the prohibition of pogos in the country is getting closer, following President Bongbong Marcos' order, a pogo hub was inspected in Kawit, Cavite.
00:10According to the DILG, more than 1,000 foreign pogo workers are still not downgrading their visas.
00:18Breaking news, Ivan Mairina is with you.
00:21This pogo hub was inspected by the local government of Kawit, Cavite.
00:29It was one of the operations that stopped following President Bongbong Marcos' order regarding the prohibition of pogos in the country in 2025.
00:35On December 15, 10 o'clock AM, we will personally lead the closure of the pogo hub.
00:46There is no license until January 1, 2025.
00:55So if there are people who will continue to look for a job or their operation because they have a valid PagCor license, that is not true.
01:12According to the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation or PagCor, 42 internet gaming licensees and 18 service providers have licenses declared by President Marcos in his area.
01:22Pogos are now being shut down.
01:24Now, only seven are still operating.
01:27All licenses will be canceled until December 15 next week, according to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission or PAOC.
01:35Everyone who will operate without a license will be arrested.
01:39It is expected that the prohibition of pogos will continue.
01:41Guerrilla pogos or smaller operations will be shut down.
01:45More than 100 rogue pogos are now being inspected by PAOC.
01:49Those are former pogo workers who worked together and made a small pogo hub or pogo operation in a house.
01:58It can be in an apartment or in a resort.
02:02PAOC is working on four such operations.
02:05There is one in Mimaropa and there is also one in a resort owned by an official in Gawing Norte, who claimed to be an LGU.
02:13He reported that a group of Chinese, about a thousand of Chinese, were going to enter his house.
02:20They were carrying their belongings.
02:23It was packed in one place and it was driven by the local government.
02:28They planned it, so they got their belongings, they are with them now.
02:34It means that they are moving away from Metro Manila.
02:38The DILG will order the local chief executives to guard their areas to ensure that no illegal pogos can operate in their area.
02:48If not, they may be arrested and charged, just like what happened to former Bantarlak Mayor Alice Guo.
02:55According to the DILG, more than 1,000 foreign pogo workers are not yet applying to downgrade their visas.
03:01Twenty Filipinas who are pregnant with pogo workers,
03:05where their husbands were repatriated back to their countries and are applying to come back here.
03:11Ivan Mayrena reporting for GMA Integrated News.

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