{"id":43231,"date":"2016-12-22T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=43231"},"modified":"2016-12-22T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T23:02:42","slug":"rodrigo-duterte-close-online-gambling-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/rodrigo-duterte-close-online-gambling-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again: Rodrigo Duterte Closing Down All Online Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><i><\/i>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has announced he will close all online gambling firms in the country. The president had, until now, appeared to have backtracked on his earlier anti-online gambling stance, which makes the messages coming out of the Philippines mixed, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Duterte made his latest pronouncement while presenting his 2017 budget at the Presidential Palace, Tuesday. &#8220;I am ordering the closure of all online gaming (firms),\u201d he said. \u201cAll of them. They have no use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43233\" data-style=\"width: 980px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-43233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20160121lr03-1024x737.jpg\" alt=\"Duterte Orders Online Gambling Shut Down \" width=\"980\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20160121lr03-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20160121lr03-142x102.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20160121lr03-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20160121lr03-1536x1106.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/20160121lr03-2048x1474.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-43233\"class=\"text-description\">President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines who announced the shutdown of all online gambling in the country on Tuesday. Also this week, he was accused of murder by the United Nations. (Image: Lynn Rillon\/Acquirer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Justice Minister later confirmed that this was more than just hot air, and that \u201call online gambling firms\u201d meant precisely all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Duterte said the government had no mechanism to regulate the industry, which is unusual because the country\u2019s operator-regulator, PAGCOR, recently began issuing licenses for foreign firms to operate online gambling provided they target non-locals.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p2\"><b>Extra-judicial Killings<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p2\">Duterte swept to power in June on a tide of populism that promised to eliminate drugs and crime, literally.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>The demagogue supports the extra-judicial killings of drug dealers and addicts and has admitted to personally executing criminals when he was the mayor of Davao City, on the Southern Philippine Island of Mindanao.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">This week the United Nations Human Rights chief said the killings \u201cconstituted murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Shortly after assuming office, at his first cabinet meeting Duterte announced that \u201conline gambling must stop.\u201d At the beginning of August, Philweb, the country\u2019s largest operator of online gaming caf\u00e9s was force to close its <span class=\"s1\">299 outlets throughout the Philippines, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pagcor-rejects-ownership-of-philweb-in-philippines\">PAGCOR<\/a>, on refused to renew its gambling license on Duterte\u2019s orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p5\"><b>Jack Lam Goes on the Lam<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p5\">But by the end of August, the president was in a more tolerant mood and there were even rumors that he was prepared to resuscitate Philweb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cPay the correct taxes\u2026 Gamble until you die. I do not really care,\u201d he announced magnanimously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Duterte said he was prepared to tolerate online gambling provided\u00a0\u201ctaxes are correctly collected and they [online gambling cafes] are situated or placed in districts where gambling is allowed, which means to say, not within the church distance or schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">\u201cI was mad because even the youth are gambling and there was no way of collecting the proper taxes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">It\u2019s unclear exactly what has brought on the sudden reversal, although may have something to do with <span class=\"s2\">Jack Lam, the Macau-based casino mogul whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pagcor-begins-privatizing-philippines-state-owned-casinos\">Philippine<\/a> authorities have charged with <\/span>bribery and economic sabotage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Lam allegedly operated an online gaming site at Fontana Leisure Parks and Casino in Pampanga, where 1,316 illegal Chinese workers were arrested last month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has announced he will close all online gambling firms in the country. The president had, until now, appeared to have backtracked on his earlier anti-online gambling stance, which makes the messages coming out of the Philippines mixed, to say the least. Duterte made his latest pronouncement while presenting his 2017 budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":43233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Here We Go Again: Rodrigo Duterte Closing Down All Online Gambling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte changes his mind on online gambling again and is planning on a shutdown. 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