Posts tagged #trafficking (2)
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What's Left After the POGO Ban? Over 9,000 Foreigners Who Can't Go Home, and Perhaps 10 Times That in Scam Hubs in Residential Neighborhoods
Even after the ban, thousands of Chinese without passports remain, hubs have scattered into small houses in residential areas, and Filipinos have been sent to scam hubs abroad. I follow it with sources, through Cambodia's scam hubs and to Japanese recruited through "dark part-time jobs," and end with my own view.
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₱14 Billion in Suspicious Transactions, 2,714 People Rescued. The Money Behind Scam Hubs Run Under the Name of Casinos Was on Another Scale
Unlicensed POGO (Philippine offshore gaming operators) outnumbered licensed ones about 6 to 1. Many of the people rescued in raids were Filipinos. I lay out, with sources, the 17.6% unemployment rate during COVID, people sold over debts, a former mayor's conviction, and scattered pieces of money from different origins.
