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THE Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) is considering the gradual phaseout of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a news forum in Quezon City on Saturday, PAOCC spokesperson Dr. Winston Casio said the government should first try phasing out POGOs in a gradual fashion before going for a total ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSo, siguro before we direct ourselves to a discussion on total ban, we could probably revisit discussions of phaseout,\u201d Casio said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Casio stressed the phaseout, if ever implemented, would pave the way for POGOs\u2019 elimination in the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA gradual phasing out maybe, a transitional mechanism that would lead to the total eradication of these scam farms,\u201d he explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This developed as the PAOCC official said only 42 POGOs are legally operating in the Philippines.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Casio said 41 of the POGOs are in Metro Manila while the other one is in Kawit, Cavite.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the other hand, 298 POGO licenses were canceled by the government, he said. Many of them are operating illegally in different parts of the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSo kung mayroon ka sa Northern Luzon, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Bicol all the way to Mindanao and Central Visayas, ibig sabihin lahat iyon ilegal,\u201d Dr. Casio said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cOut of the 298 POGOs that were canceled, mayroon tayong 42 na legally operating. A good number of those 298 are still operating. What does that mean? That even if you totally banned them, you don\u2019t necessarily take them out of the picture,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA good number of them have gone underground,\u201d Casio added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Calls for the government to get rid of POGOs intensified due to illegal activities linked to the industry. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) is considering the gradual phaseout of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) in the country. In a news forum in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016"}],"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=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}