Roque has refuted suggestions<\/a> that he advocated for Lucky South 99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n35 deported to Indonesia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has reported that\u00a035 Indonesians\u00a0<\/strong>arrested\u00a0during a raid on an illegal offshore gaming operator at a resort in Lapu-Lapu City last Wednesday (October 23) were blacklisted and deported to Indonesia over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\nImmigration commissioner Joel Anthony Viado <\/strong>said those deported were among over 100 foreign nationals arrested <\/strong>in the raid, which was coordinated by the BI along with the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine Center on Transnational Crime and the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charges have been filed against Harry Roque and two others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Human trafficking charges have been filed against former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque and two others, alleging links to an illegal offshore gaming operation, Lucky South 99, in Porac, Pampanga. Concurrently, 35 Indonesian nationals were deported following a raid on another illegal offshore gaming operator in Lapu-Lapu City, underscoring intensified regulatory enforcement against illicit iGaming activities in the Philippines.","focusai_entities":"Harry Roque, Mercides Macabasa, Ley Tan, Cassandra Li Ong, Darwin Ca\u00f1ete, Joel Anthony Viado, Lucky South 99, Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG), Department of Justice (DOJ), Philippine News Agency, Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT), Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Bureau of Immigration (BI), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine Center on Transnational Crime","focusai_location":"Philippines, Porac, Pampanga, Lapu-Lapu City, Indonesia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Licensing Impact?","query":"What are the broader implications for POGO licensing and regulatory oversight in the Philippines following these high-profile charges and enforcement actions?"},{"label":"PAGCOR's Evolving Role?","query":"How will PAGCOR's governance framework and monitoring capabilities evolve given the alleged intervention in licence applications and links to illegal offshore gaming operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777020251","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\/777020251","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=777020251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777020269,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020251\/revisions\/777020269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777020251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777020251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777020251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}