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Two EDCA websites in Cagayan province are: Lal-lo Airport in Lal-lo, and Camilo Osias Naval Base in Sta. Ana city, which is about 7.8 kilometers from the Cagayan Financial Zone Authority
PAMPANGA, Philippines – The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Company (Pagcor) denied on Wednesday, July 17, throughout a joint listening to of the Home committee on public order and security and video games and amusements that there have been Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGOs) close to the Enhanced Protection Cooperation Settlement (EDCA) websites in Cagayan province.
“Within the record of our Pagcor licensees, there’s not a single license granted by Pagcor to any IGL (web gaming licensee) operator that’s subsequent to or contained in the EDCA websites,” Pagcor chairperson Alejandro Tengco mentioned in Filipino.
“On this corridor, I need to inform you, no license has ever been issued by Pagcor inside EDCA or subsequent to EDCA websites particularly within the Cagayan space,” he added.
Two EDCA websites are in Cagayan province: Lal-lo Airport in Lal-lo city, and the Camilo Osias Naval Base Camilo in Sta. Ana city, which is about 7.8 kilometers from the Cagayan Financial Zone Authority (CEZA), in line with Google Maps.
Cagayan third district consultant Joseph Lara mentioned he needed to make clear the problem with the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Fee (PAOCC) on the alleged POGOs close to these EDCA websites.
PAOCC spokesperson Winston Casio mentioned the data was primarily based from intelligence experiences and paperwork from the Securities and Trade Fee.
CEZA administrator and chief govt officer Katrina Ponce Enrile, in a press launch dated March 20, mentioned CEZA has “been issuing interactive gaming licenses, not offshore gaming licenses.”
CEZA was the primary financial zone within the Philippines to supply to host of monetary expertise firms, and the primary licensed zone to discover on-line gaming within the Philippines which have been working within the house for over twenty years, the press launch learn.
Rappler reached out to CEZA to validate the names of enterprise locators allegedly linked to POGOs. We are going to replace this story as soon as we obtain its response.
Lara mentioned there are nonetheless round 800 Chinese language nationals enrolled at a college in Tuguegarao Metropolis and added that the numbers might fluctuate as brief course packages, that are taken between three months to a 12 months, are additionally being supplied. No less than 4 universities in Cagayan denied the inflow of Chinese language college students.
Lara and Isabela sixth District Consultant Faustino Dy V had filed separate resolutions looking for to research the rise of Chinese language college students in Cagayan.
Lara pressured that the connection between POGOs and Chinese language college students shouldn’t be disregarded, citing intelligence experiences.
“As for Chinese language college students in Tuguegarao, they’re nonetheless enrolled there. Per final listening to (greater than) 800 enrolled. These are shifting numbers since there are three months, six months, or one 12 months packages at Saint Paul College (Tuguegarao),” Lara instructed Rappler on Thursday.
“This can be a nationwide situation now. I hope not, however it’s not removed from taking place to us both,” Lara mentioned. “So we are able to shed mild in that northern half, particularly as a result of we’re near the West Philippine Sea. I imagine folks in our province have to know with a view to alleviate the troubling situation of safety in us.” –Rappler.com
