{"id":30509,"date":"2022-06-07T02:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30509"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:02:46","slug":"philippines-29-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-29-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-2","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: 29 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Bulacan have arrested 29 people in a series of raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- A total of 29 people were arrested on Sunday in a series of raids carried out by police in Bulacan. Police say the raids targeted illegal gambling in Meycauayan, the city of San Jos\u00e9 del Monte and Norzagaray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In most of the cases,\u00a0those arrested were allegedly gambling on heads and tails coin tosses, betting games and <strong>illegal cockfighting<\/strong>. Police seized fighting cocks, gaffs, boxes and betting money. Eight people were arrested for other matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, a similar operation in Central Luzon <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-philippines-58-arrested-for-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">ended with 58 arrests<\/a>. According to The Inquirer, police seized money, gambling paraphernalia, five dead fighting roosters, 18 live fighting roosters, 17 rooster gaffs, and a motorcycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first fifteen days of May,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/authorities-shut-7-illegal-e-sabong-operations\" target=\"_blank\">123 operations against illegal gambling were carried out<\/a>. They ended with 370 people arrested and 107,455 gaming materials confiscated. The\u00a0<strong>Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)<\/strong>\u00a0reported that police also detected and shut down seven illegal e-sabong websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duterte gave in to pressure to ban e-sabong after\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-calls-for-e-sabong-to-be-suspended-after-31-disappear\" target=\"_blank\">31 people linked to the industry disappeared<\/a>. In a DILG survey of 8,463 people,<strong>\u00a062 per cent\u00a0<\/strong>believed that online cockfighting should end while 34 per cent thought operations should continue with stricter regulation. Only 4 per cent of those polled were in favour of e-sabong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reasons cited by respondents for opposing e-sabong include gambling addiction, player bankruptcy, neglect of work and school, and crime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Bulacan have arrested 29 people in a series of raids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Philippine authorities in Bulacan conducted extensive raids against illegal gambling operations, resulting in 29 arrests for traditional betting and cockfighting, alongside the detection and shutdown of seven illegal e-sabong websites. These enforcement actions follow a broader crackdown in Central Luzon and a government ban on e-sabong, driven by public opposition citing gambling addiction and associated crime.","focusai_entities":"Duterte, The Inquirer, Department of the Interior and Local Government, DILG","focusai_location":"Philippines, Bulacan, Meycauayan, San Jos\u00e9 del Monte, Norzagaray, Central Luzon","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"E-sabong ban impact?","query":"What are the long-term implications of the e-sabong ban on the broader iGaming regulatory landscape and potential for other gaming verticals in the Philippines?"},{"label":"Illegal market GGR leakage?","query":"How effective are these enforcement actions in reducing the overall illegal gambling market size and mitigating GGR leakage from the regulated sector in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-30509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30509","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=30509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30544,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30509\/revisions\/30544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}