{"id":777018789,"date":"2024-09-05T08:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777018789"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:26:46","slug":"pagcor-to-begin-winding-down-offshore-gaming-operators-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-to-begin-winding-down-offshore-gaming-operators-next-month","title":{"rendered":"PAGCOR to begin winding down offshore gaming operators next month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco said the process will be implemented once President Marcos issues an executive order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- Alejandro Tengco, chairman and CEO of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), has announced that the process of winding down offshore gaming operators will start in October. During a public hearing of the Committee on Games and Amusement, he said the process will begin immediately after an executive order is issued by president Marcos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tengco said some gaming operators have already ceased operations. He said: &#8220;Two months after the State of the Nation Address (SONA), we have 46. Today, we only have 41. That means five of those that we cancelled were gone because of numerous violations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Philippines News Agency, Jessa Mariz Fernandez, PAGCOR&#8217;s assistant vice president, has said that the cancellation of work visas will be done in batches to gradually decrease offshore gaming operations before December 31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) undersecretary Felipe Egargo Jr has said that help will be provided for the 28,500 Filipinos who work in the sector but there has been no clarification of what measures will be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-senator-urges-strict-enforcement-of-offshore-gaming-ban\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Philippine senator urges strict enforcement of offshore gaming ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco said the process will be implemented once President Marcos issues an executive order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777004926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco announced the phased wind-down of offshore gaming operators (POGOs) in the Philippines, commencing in October upon presidential executive order. This initiative follows the cancellation of licenses for operators with numerous violations, with work visa cancellations to be batched until December 31, impacting approximately 28,500 Filipino workers.","focusai_entities":"Alejandro Tengco, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), President Marcos, Jessa Mariz Fernandez, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Felipe Egargo Jr, The Philippines News Agency","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Economic impact assessment","query":"What is PAGCOR's projected economic impact assessment of the POGO wind-down, considering lost tax revenues and the reallocation of the affected workforce?"},{"label":"Regulatory framework evolution","query":"How will the Philippine regulatory framework for iGaming evolve post-POGO wind-down, and what new licensing opportunities or restrictions might emerge for B2B\/B2C operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,158,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-777018789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018789","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=777018789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018796,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018789\/revisions\/777018796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777004926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777018789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777018789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777018789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}