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Adrian Ayalin

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/176404175860220240924-ong-guo-yang-senate-hearing-MD-14.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Cassandra Ong attends the hearing called by the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File </span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — The Department of Justice on Tuesday offered a P1 million reward for information that would lead to the arrest of Cassandra Li Ong, the alleged representative of the shuttered Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator hub Lucky South 99 in Porac, Pampanga.</p><p>Department of Justice the government is offering a P1 million reward for information on Lucky South 99 representative Cassandra Li Ong.</p><p>The reward comes after the Pasig City Regional Trial Court Branch 157 ordered the cancellation of the passports of Ong, as well as her co-accused Atty. Harry Roque, Ronelyn Baterna, Dennis Cunanan and Mercides Macabasa.</p><p>Following reports that Ong has already fled the country, the DOJ maintained that there was no Bureau of Immigration record of her departure.  </p><p>“Definitely, with the current information, we don’t have enough, that’s why we are offering the reward, and it’s an effective tool, kasi in the past, effective tool ito for crowdsourcing of information,” Acting Secretary Fredderick Vida said.</p><p>Indonesian authorities apprehended Ong, Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and her supposed sister Sheila Guo in August 2024 for being &quot;suspicious foreigners&quot;.  The three were sent back to the Philippines to face alleged immigration violations, including illegal exit by bypassing official ports and airports.</p><p>But Ong was<a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/11/21/lucky-south-99-s-cassandra-ong-freed-during-congress-break-now-at-large-1538"> released from detention</a> in the transition between the 19th and 20th Congresses, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said Friday.</p><p>Ong was <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/11/22/lucky-south-99-s-cassandra-ong-last-tracked-in-japan-paocc-1100">last tracked in Japan</a> earlier this year, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) said Saturday.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>HARRY ROQUE </strong></div><div><br/></div><p>Meanwhile, the DOJ said it was up to the receiving country to act on the cancellation of Roque’s passport. </p><p>DOJ Undersecretary Nicholas Felix Ty said as far as the government was concerned, there was no definite information on Roque’s status as an asylum seeker.</p><p>“Ang masasabi lang natin na yung asylum at yung non-refoulement ay discretion ng bansa, call na ng bansa,” Ty said.</p><p>Roque is currently in the Netherlands as he seeks asylum purportedly because of his political beliefs.</p><p>“My application for asylum is ongoing and I will continue to stand up for the truth, good governance and the quest for a better Philippines,” Roque said in a Facebook post. </p><p>“Ultimately at the end of the day, he has to demonstrate and establish to the authorities na he is being persecuted here, and, right now, there is no persecution but he is being prosecuted,” said DOJ Chief State Counsel Dennis Chan. </p><div><iframe width="1100" height="619" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NdTUQyuUzic" title="LIVE: DOJ OIC Secretary Fredderick Vida holds press briefing" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><br/></div>

<p>The Department of Justice on Tuesday offered a P1 million reward for information that would lead to the arrest of Cassandra Li Ong, the alleged representative of the shuttered Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator hub Lucky South 99 in Porac, Pampanga. </p>

The Department of Justice on Tuesday offered a P1 million reward for information that would lead to the arrest of Cassandra Li Ong, the alleged representative of the shuttered Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator hub Lucky South 99 in Porac, Pampanga.

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P1 million reward out for info on Cassandra Li Ong

Adrian Ayalin,

ABS-CBN News

Published November 25, 2025 11:43 AM PHT

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Updated November 25, 2025 01:05 PM PHT

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