Prohibited but Not Eliminated: A Year into the Philippine Crackdown on POGOs, Nearly Ten Thousand Chinese Remain Stranded in Fraud Schemes

It has been a year since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a comprehensive ban on offshore gambling (POGO), and although the Philippines has ostensibly cleared the main operating parks, the shadow of POGO still lingers. The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) notes that about 9