{"id":777013529,"date":"2024-02-28T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013529"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:35:12","slug":"philippines-28-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-28-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: 28 arrested for alleged illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police arrested people for playing a card game and cockfighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Police in the Philippines arrested 28 people in two days in three separate incidents of alleged illegal gambling over two days. Some 23 people were arrested for playing the card game tong-its, four for conducting cockfights and one for playing Swertres and Last Two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 15 of the arrests were made by the Surigao del Sur Provincial Police Office (SPPO), six by Surigao del Norte SPPO, five by Agusan del Sur SPPO and two by Butuan City Police Office. Police seized PHP14,083.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-remains-on-fatf-grey-list-2\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philippines remains on FATF grey list<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested people for playing a card game and cockfighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":12751,"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 conducted multiple arrests across several provinces for alleged illegal gambling activities, including card games and cockfighting, seizing over PHP14,000. These enforcement actions underscore the ongoing challenges with illicit gaming operations within the jurisdiction, a context further highlighted by the Philippines' continued presence on the FATF grey list.","focusai_entities":"Police, Surigao del Sur Provincial Police Office, Surigao del Norte SPPO, Agusan del Sur SPPO, Butuan City Police Office, FATF","focusai_location":"Philippines, Surigao del Sur, Surigao del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Butuan City","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), operator_casino (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"FATF Grey List Impact?","query":"How do these ongoing illegal gambling arrests and the Philippines' continued FATF grey list status influence the nation's appeal for legitimate iGaming and capital market investments?"},{"label":"Enforcement Strategy Efficacy?","query":"What is the long-term efficacy of localized police enforcement actions against illegal gambling in the Philippines, particularly in mitigating the black market's impact on regulated GGR and NGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777013529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013529","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=777013529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013551,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013529\/revisions\/777013551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}