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THE government will run down underground Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla vowed on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cGuerrilla (POGO) operations will (still) flourish but we will go after them,\u201d Remulla told a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang when asked if the Philippines will be POGO-free by 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Remulla, the DILG, together with the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC), will ensure that all underground POGO activities will be pursued.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said they will issue an executive order requiring all local chief executives to submit a report regarding any suspicious activities within their localities, including possible movement or setup of POGO.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMalalaman \u2018yan sa spike bigla ng bandwidth use, entry of suspicious people, congregating in houses not registered as businesses. Makikita \u2018yan sa movement ng foreigners na gusto mag-setup diyan na hindi naman kilala. So, they are enjoined to report immediately sa amin para malaman namin at makagawa kami ng aksyon,\u201d Remulla said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cKami po ng PAOCC ay magkasama. Jointly namin tutugisin lahat ng mga \u2018yan hanggang matapos lahat,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n POGO LICENSES TO BE REVOKED BY DEC 15<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the same briefing, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) announced that by December 15, licenses of remaining POGOs will be revoked.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In his third State of the Nation Address, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. declared a ban against all POGO operations in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The President said POGOs have \u201cventured into illicit areas furthest from gaming such as financial scamming, money laundering, prostitution, human trafficking, kidnapping, brutal torture, even murder.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE government will run down underground Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla vowed on Wednesday. “Guerrilla (POGO) operations will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10649,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}