{"id":777022680,"date":"2025-02-07T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777022680"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:00:25","slug":"philippine-bi-announces-new-deportations-linked-to-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-bi-announces-new-deportations-linked-to-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Philippine BI announces new deportations linked to illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Those deported were arrested in raids on alleged illegal offshore gaming operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has reported that\u00a057 foreign nationals<\/strong> (46 Chinese, seven Myanmar nationals, three Vietnamese and one Malaysian), have been deported in the last five days after being arrested in a raid on alleged illegal offshore gaming operators in Para\u00f1aque City in January. Some 450 people were arrested<\/strong> in the raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BI commissioner Joel Anthony Viado <\/strong>said: “We will not allow foreign nationals to abuse our immigration system. Those who break our laws and insist on continuing illegal POGO activities in the Philippines will be arrested and swiftly deported.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Under the leadership of President Marcos and with the full support of the department of justice, we are resolute in ridding the country of these undesirable aliens.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viado said\u00a0the deportees were put on flights at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from January 31 to February 5. He said authorities are working to identify, arrest, and remove more foreign nationals engaged in criminal activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also: <\/strong>Philippines anti-offshore gaming bill passes second reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those deported were arrested in raids on alleged illegal offshore gaming operators.<\/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":"The Philippine Bureau of Immigration has deported 57 foreign nationals, primarily Chinese, following raids on alleged illegal offshore gaming operators (POGOs) in Para\u00f1aque City. This action is part of a broader government initiative to eradicate illicit gaming activities and uphold immigration laws, with authorities continuing efforts to identify and remove more individuals engaged in criminal enterprises.","focusai_entities":"Bureau of Immigration (BI), Joel Anthony Viado, President Marcos, Department of Justice","focusai_location":"Philippines, Para\u00f1aque City, Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected impact of the sustained enforcement against illegal POGOs on the Philippines' overall Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) from legitimate, licensed operators, and how might this influence future fiscal policy?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework Evolution","query":"Beyond current enforcement, what specific enhancements to the B2B\/B2C licensing and governance frameworks are being considered by PAGCOR or the Department of Justice to prevent the resurgence of illegal offshore gaming operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,158,16333],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777022680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022680","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=777022680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777022715,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777022680\/revisions\/777022715"}],"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=777022680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777022680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777022680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}