A total of 15 suspects have been arrested in Laguna’s Bi\u00f1an City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The Philippine National Police (PNP)<\/strong> have arrested a total of 15 people in operations against two alleged illegal online casinos in Laguna’s Bi\u00f1an City. One venue was reportedly disguised as a convenience store and the other as a repair shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police seized desktop computers and other equipment, according to 24 Oras. Neither venue had a licence from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) <\/strong>authorising them to offer online gambling. Police have also linked them to SMS scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Laguna PPO provincial director colonel Randy Glen Silvio<\/strong> said: “Based on the arrests, they earn PHP3,500 weekly. If a player loses, they get 50 per cent. So if someone loses PHP1m, they\u2019ll have P500,000.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A total of 15 suspects have been arrested in Laguna’s Bi\u00f1an City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26852,"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 have arrested 15 individuals in Bi\u00f1an City, Laguna, for operating two unlicensed online casinos disguised as legitimate businesses. These operations, lacking authorization from PAGCOR, were also linked to SMS scams, highlighting significant regulatory compliance and market integrity challenges within the Philippine iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Philippine National Police, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, Randy Glen Silvio","focusai_location":"Philippines, Laguna, Bi\u00f1an City","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PAGCOR Enforcement Strategy","query":"What specific enhancements to PAGCOR's enforcement strategy are being considered to more effectively counter the proliferation of unlicensed iGaming operations and associated criminal activities?"},{"label":"Market Integrity Impact","query":"How do these persistent illegal operations, including their reported weekly earnings, quantitatively impact the GGR and NGR projections for the regulated Philippine iGaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777001205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001205","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=777001205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777001234,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001205\/revisions\/777001234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777001205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777001205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777001205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}