A former Philippine Supreme Court judge was quoted as saying his country’s gaming regulator should not issue Chinese-run offshore online gaming licenses, given that gambling is prohibited in China except inside casinos in Macau.
Former Philippine Court President Antonio Carpio said at a public event in Manila on the 25th, “Have you heard of ‘China’s Great Firewall’? Online POGO [Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator], which claims to operate in China, has been blocked,” media outlet Rappler reported.
“They are doing business in China from Pagcor [Philippine Element and Gaming Corp] but they are blocked,” Mr Carpio added.
In July last year, Pagcor introduced a new regulation for POGO, now officially called “Internet Gaming Licenses” (IGL).
The former Supreme Court judge argued that what the report called “China-run proclamations” were using licenses such as “cover only” to allow them to operate on buildings and computers.
Instead, he said, companies could engage in fraud and so-called phishing over the internet.
“Cancel those licenses. We are just deceiving ourselves,” Carpio was also quoted as saying.
Carpio said he hoped the Philippine head of state, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., would speak out against overseas online operators in his upcoming State of the Union address.
“It would probably be nice if PAGCO could announce its opposition to the rules for issuing licenses for POGO suitable for mainland Chinese markets,” the former chief judge said in a commentary on Saturday.
In April, Beijing said it was working with Philippine authorities on issues related to online gambling, which it claimed were “victims of off-the-board gambling.”
Mr Carpio, along with former Senator Leila de Lima and former Supreme Court Justice Conchita Carpio Morales, had urged Mr Marcos in an open letter to revoke his online licenses abroad.
“Pagco cannot, and should not, issue licenses to POGO targeting mainland Chinese markets. Such licenses are invalid [from the beginning] under Pagco’s rules,” their open letter said.
In a related development, the Philippine daily Enquirer reported on Monday that Interior Minister Benjamin Avalos Jr. met with law enforcement and local governments over the weekend in Metro Manila and parts of Luzon over a campaign to eradicate “illegal declarations.”
Brigadier General Nicholas Salvador, acting deputy chief of police operations in the Philippines, said internet game permits or unlicensed forgos raised concerns about espionage, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, physical abuse, kidnapping, extortion, digital fraud and identity theft.
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