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Authorities arrested 17 foreign nationals due to illegal online gambling in two separate operations.
In a 24 Oras report from John Consulta on Saturday, operatives from the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the Bureau of Internal Revenue Fugitive Search Unit (BI-FSU) raided a condo unit in Pasay City where the operations took place.
Authorities also went to another unit expecting just one foreign suspect there, but they also found another foreign national also conducting a scheme.
At least nine foreigners were arrested in the Pasay operation. They were handling a website that offered online gambling to other countries.
“Walong Chinese at isang Vietnamese kung saan sila ay nag ooperate ng illegal online gambling, so naabutan nga natin sila sa kanilang mga work stations,” BI-FSU Chief Rendel Sy said.
(Eight Chinese and one Vietnamese and they were operating an illegal online gambling, so we found them in their work stations.)
Sy said Chinese police reported to them that there was an exchange of money using fake bank accounts. This signified money laundering, he said.
Pampanga
In a separate operation in Angeles, Pampanga, immigration agents raided another scamming hub, catching eight Korean nationals in the act.
The Korean nationals were allegedly providing high-tech support to partner scammers in other countries.
According to Sy, the online gambling scheme involved the selling of virtual tokens, which would be used by clients in the games.
The suspects were allegedly selling online bank accounts to scammers, which is where the illegal proceeds would be taken. —Jean Mangaluz/ VAL, GMA News
