A recent raid on a Pogo (Philippine Online Gaming Operators) hub in Porac, Pampanga, revealed a complex network of illegal gambling, human trafficking, and other criminal activities. This incident follows a nationwide ban on Pogo operations imposed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in late 2024, highlighting the ongoing efforts to address the harmful consequences of this industry.
A POLICE barrier tape marks the site of a raided Pogo hub in Porac, Pampanga. On June 5, 2024, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, conducted an ocular inspection of the compound, which includes 46 buildings, six entry and exit gates, a KTV bar, dormitories, and other facilities, housing nearly 2,000 employees.
His case jolts Filipinos’ memory of the nightmare that they all must continue to deal with, nearly two weeks after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s blanket ban on Pogo enterprises took effect at the end of 2024.national Airport Terminal 1. The individuals, deemed undesirable aliens, had been work-documents. The hub was raided, revealing illegal gambling, human trafficking, and an allegedan aquarium-style viewing chamber of a massage parlor within the facility.
During the nearly three years of investigations in the Senate—and parallel actions by the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, the National Bureau of Investigation, and other units under the Department of Justice—the full extent of the harm caused by the poorly regulated Pogo activities is only now being redressed.
4) The Philippine Statistics Authority is still reeling from the Pogo scandal, which showed hundreds of foreign nationals able to secure birth certificates from some local registries, and then used these to secure vital Philippine documents like passports and the National ID. Law-enforcement agencies, meanwhile, are also tracking illegal Pogo operations that have simply gone underground—as the state regulator Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. had warned—and are now taking over underutilized, cash-hungry real estate outside Metro Manila.
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