{"id":777001706,"date":"2023-01-24T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777001706"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:17:33","slug":"the-philippines-10-charged-over-illegal-e-sabong-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-philippines-10-charged-over-illegal-e-sabong-operation","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines: 10 charged over illegal e-sabong operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Quezon City arrested ten people for alleged involvement in e-sabong operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Ten people have been arrested and charged for involvement in alleged online cockfighting (e-sabong) operations in Quezon City. According to <strong>the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI)<\/strong>, those arrested were detained at a cockpit arena in Novaliches. Police seized wireless internet servers, computers and video recorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to NBI special investigator <strong>Ferdie Manuel<\/strong>, ten people were caught recording a cockfight. They have been charged at the Quezon City prosecutor&#8217;s office with illegal gambling in connection with cybercrime and a breach of the ban on e-sabong, which was introduced by <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-e-sabong-ban-to-continue\">President Marcos&#8217; Executive Order No. 9<\/a> (EO 9) last May. The NBI said it would ask the city hall to close the e-sabong arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EO 9 suspended live-streaming of cockfights outside cockpits or any premises where cockfights are being held and online or off-cockpit betting on live cockfighting matches that are streamed live, regardless of the location of the betting platform. Traditional licensed cockfights are not affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/former-police-officers-wanted-in-connection-with-e-sabong-kidnapping-hand-themselves-in\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Former police officers wanted in connection with e-sabong kidnapping hand themselves in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Quezon City arrested ten people for alleged involvement in e-sabong operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":10910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Ten individuals were arrested in Quezon City, Philippines, for alleged involvement in illegal e-sabong operations, violating President Marcos' Executive Order No. 9. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) seized operational equipment and plans to request the closure of the implicated cockpit arena. This action underscores the government's ongoing enforcement against unauthorized online gambling verticals.","focusai_entities":"National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Ferdie Manuel, President Marcos","focusai_location":"Quezon City, Novaliches, Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regulated iGaming?","query":"What are the broader implications of this enforcement action for the regulated iGaming sector and its governance frameworks in the Philippines?"},{"label":"EO 9 Compliance Challenges?","query":"How does Executive Order No. 9 specifically differentiate between legal and illegal cockfighting operations, and what are the compliance challenges for stakeholders?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[24019,23911],"class_list":["post-777001706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-e-sabong","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001706","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=777001706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777001717,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001706\/revisions\/777001717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777001706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777001706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777001706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}