Benjo Benavidez<\/strong> announced the inquiry during the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon to determine whether AEPs issued to POGO workers should be revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSome 42,000 foreign POGO workers hold AEPs. Benavidez said the review was essential. He said: \u201cIdeally, these legally issued AEPs must be used properly and correctly. If these POGO workers-issued AEPs are found engaged in illegal activities, these are subject to revocation or cancellation. That is the directive of our secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andy Chen has also been fined PHP1m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A Chinese national linked to a Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) has been sentenced to 20 years for human trafficking, highlighting escalating criminal activities within the sector. This conviction coincides with intensified government scrutiny, including a Senate push to shut down POGOs, calls for tighter tax identification controls, and a Department of Labor investigation into foreign workers' employment permits.","focusai_entities":"Andy Chen, Regional Trial Court Branch 275, Judge Phoeve Meer, Women and Children Protection Center (WCPC), XinChuang Network Technology, Philippine National Police (PNP), Benjamin C. Acorda, Senator Win Gatchalian, Senate Committee on Ways and Means, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Philippine Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Benjo Benavidez","focusai_location":"The Philippines, Las Pi\u00f1as, Alabang-Zapote Road, Barangay Almanza Uno","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Industry Future?","query":"What is the projected timeline and economic impact of Senator Gatchalian's push for a complete POGO industry shutdown on the Philippine economy and the broader iGaming ecosystem?"},{"label":"AEP Revocation Criteria?","query":"What specific criteria will the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) utilize to determine the revocation of Alien Employment Permits (AEPs) for POGO workers, and what is the estimated scale of potential revocations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[15789],"class_list":["post-777011375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011375","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=777011375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040913,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011375\/revisions\/777040913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}