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PAOCC: Workers of illegal POGO hub in Cebu are from Lucky South 99

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Kevin Alabaso

ABS-CBN News

<div><span>MANILA -- Almost all the foreigners rescued in the illegal POGO hub in Lapu-lapu City, Cebu were former employees of the controversial Lucky South 99, according to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC).</span><span></span></div><div><span>PAOCC spokesperson Dir. Winston Casio said Wednesday evening that around two-thirds of the 169 rescued illegal POGO hub employees were from Bamban, Tarlac and Porac, Pampanga.</span></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/8/31/more-than-150-foreigners-rescued-in-raid-on-illegal-pogo-in-lapu-lapu-city-1926"></a><span><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/8/31/more-than-150-foreigners-rescued-in-raid-on-illegal-pogo-in-lapu-lapu-city-1926"></a></span><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/8/31/more-than-150-foreigners-rescued-in-raid-on-illegal-pogo-in-lapu-lapu-city-1926">More than 150 foreigners rescued in raid on illegal POGO in Lapu-Lapu City</a></div><div><span></span><span></span></div><div><span>&quot;&#x27;Yung mga Pilipino na nakuha natin na administrative staff dito ay galing pa ng Bamban at Porac. Kinumpirma nila na kakilala nila si Alice Guo, at kinumpirma nila na -- diba ni-raid namin noong June 4 &#x27;yung Lucky South 99 -- noong June 3 naka-receive na daw sila ng tip,&quot; Casio said in TeleRadyo Serbisyo&#x27;s Johnson Ikwento Mo.</span><span></span></div><div><span>&quot;Nakareceive na sila ng tip noong June 3 kaya nakaalis sila. Kaya &#x27;di na namin sila nahuli. Tapos noong June 8, lumipad sila mula sa Clark, Pampanga papunta na dito sa Lapu-lapu,&quot; he continued.</span><span></span></div><div><span>Casio added that out of the 169 arrested employees, one was underage and was turned over to the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Cebu.</span><span></span></div><div><span>Meanwhile, the PAOCC spokesperson also said that they are now only waiting for Guo&#x27;s arrival to proceed with the cases against the former Bamban mayor.</span></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/9/4/168-pogo-workers-mula-cebu-dinala-sa-maynila-1840"></a><span><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/9/4/168-pogo-workers-mula-cebu-dinala-sa-maynila-1840">168 POGO workers mula Cebu dinala sa Maynila</a></span></div>

<p>Almost all the foreigners rescued in the illegal POGO hub in Lapu-lapu City, Cebu were former employees of the controversial Lucky South 99, according to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC).</p>

Almost all the foreigners rescued in the illegal POGO hub in Lapu-lapu City, Cebu were former employees of the controversial Lucky South 99, according to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC).