{"id":22967,"date":"2021-09-24T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=22967"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:21:16","slug":"philippines-29-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-29-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: 29 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities have arrested 29 people for llegal gambling during a series of raids in Gerona town in Tarlac province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines.-\u00a0<strong>Officers have arrested 29 people for allegedly being involved in illegal gambling<\/strong>. A first raid ended with the arrest of 13 people who were found playing card games. A second raid in Ayson village resulted in the arrest of nine people for <strong>illegal bets in the card game tong-its<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to The Inquirer,<strong>\u00a0two village officials<\/strong> were among those arrested. A third raid saw seven people arrested for playing tong-its and pusoy dos, a popular type of shedding card game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the raids, police seized a set of mahjong tiles, several decks of Spanish and American playing cards and cash. All those arrested will be charged with\u00a0<strong>violation of anti-gambling law<\/strong>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">11 arrested for illegal online e-sabong betting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers arrested 11 people for allegedly being involved in<strong>\u00a0illegal e-sabong betting\u00a0<\/strong>in Banban Township, Tarlac Province. According to police, those arrested were watching and betting on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-pagcor-to-receive-revenue-from-licensed-e-sabong\">e-sabong<\/a>\u00a0in Anupul Village at around 11.30pm so<strong>\u00a0were also breaching the curfew imposed by the government<\/strong>\u00a0due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Inquirer reported that those arrested&nbsp;<strong>were not wearing mandatory masks&nbsp;<\/strong>and that there was no social distancing. Police seized P6,000 and a paper with a list of bets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have arrested 29 people for llegal gambling during a series of raids in Gerona town in Tarlac province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Authorities in Tarlac province, Philippines, conducted multiple raids, arresting 29 individuals for illegal card games like tong-its and pusoy dos, and an additional 11 for illegal e-sabong betting. The e-sabong arrests also cited violations of COVID-19 curfews, mask mandates, and social distancing protocols, underscoring broader regulatory compliance challenges.","focusai_entities":"The Inquirer","focusai_location":"Philippines, Tarlac province, Gerona town, Ayson village, Banban Township, Anupul Village","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Penalties for Illegal Gambling?","query":"What are the specific legal penalties and enforcement trends for anti-gambling law violations in the Philippines, particularly concerning e-sabong and traditional card games?"},{"label":"Impact on Regulatory Strategy?","query":"How do these localized enforcement actions against illegal gambling and e-sabong inform the broader regulatory strategy for licensed iGaming operations and market integrity in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-22967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22982,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22967\/revisions\/22982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}