Senator Mark Villar suggests corrupt government employees may be enabling the widespread use of fake documents by foreign nationals seeking to enter the Philippines as Filipinos. This discovery, made following a raid on a travel agency issuing fraudulent papers, adds a new dimension to the ongoing investigation into Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs). Villar believes this 'inside job' could explain the persistence of foreign nationals entering the country with falsified documents despite the ban on POGOs.
CORRUPT employees at multiple government agencies could be behind the widespread use of fake birth certificates and illegally obtained passports, Sen. Mark Villar said Thursday.Villar, chairman of the Senate Committee on Games and Amusement, said this was the likely conclusion that could be drawn after a recent raid on a travel agency that was providing fake documents to foreign nationals who wanted to pass themselves off as Filipinos.
These illegal agencies that issue fake documents are sure to have connections with various government agencies,' Villar said during a hearing Thursday.'They might have an accomplice to be able to issue these fake documents. This makes us realize that we barely scratched the surface of this POGO issue. We need to look at the angle that there is an inside job. This is the possible reason for the continued entry of foreign nationals into the Philippines using fake documents,' he added.
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