{"id":777016268,"date":"2024-06-10T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T12:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777016268"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:19:47","slug":"senator-urges-philippines-to-seek-chinas-help-to-combat-illegal-offshore-gaming-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/senator-urges-philippines-to-seek-chinas-help-to-combat-illegal-offshore-gaming-operations","title":{"rendered":"Senator urges Philippines to seek China’s help to combat illegal offshore gaming operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imee Marcos says the Philippines cannot effectively combat the groups alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- Senator Imee Marcos<\/strong> has urged the Philippines to seek assistance from China in dismantling Chinese syndicates operating illegal offshore gaming from the country. In a radio interview, Marcos said syndicates are involved in transnational crimes and that the Philippines cannot effectively combat them alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marcos noted that offshore businesses serve bettors from mainland China and are sometimes linked to love scams, human trafficking and kidnapping. Marcos suggested Chinese authorities could provide support for a crack down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Risa Hontiveros<\/a> has claimed that offshore gambling operators are fronts for cryptocurrency scam hubs. On May 30, Hontiveros resumed a Senate investigation into criminal activities involving foreign nationals, including human trafficking and racketeering. She presented evidence from raids in Clark, Pampanga<\/a>, which resulted in the rescue of 1,300 victims and the confiscation of over PHP180m in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May,\u00a0senator Win Gatchalian<\/strong>\u00a0introduced\u00a0Senate Bill 2689<\/strong>, seeking to\u00a0prohibit the operations of offshore gaming companies<\/a>. The bill aims to repeal Republic Act 11590, which was enacted on September 22, 2021 by former president Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imee Marcos says the Philippines cannot effectively combat the groups alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Senator Imee Marcos advocates for Philippine-China cooperation to dismantle illegal offshore gaming syndicates involved in transnational crimes. This comes amidst ongoing Senate investigations led by Senator Risa Hontiveros into POGO-linked human trafficking and racketeering, and a legislative push by Senator Win Gatchalian to prohibit all offshore gaming operations by repealing Republic Act 11590.","focusai_entities":"Imee Marcos, Risa Hontiveros, Win Gatchalian, Rodrigo Duterte, China","focusai_location":"Philippines, China, Clark, Pampanga","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Ban Impact","query":"What are the projected economic and employment impacts of a full prohibition of offshore gaming operations in the Philippines, considering both direct and indirect contributions to the national GDP?"},{"label":"China Cooperation Efficacy","query":"What specific mechanisms and governance frameworks would be required for effective cross-border law enforcement cooperation between the Philippines and China to dismantle transnational illegal iGaming syndicates, and what are the precedents for such collaboration?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16333],"tags":[405,15789],"class_list":["post-777016268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016268","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=777016268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016306,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016268\/revisions\/777016306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}