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A former Cabinet official had lobbied for the granting of licenses to some illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators , the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation said on Saturday.In a statement, PAGCOR said a "former high ranking government official tried to facilitate the grant of gaming licenses to some of the illegal POGO s that have been recently raided and found engaged in illegal activities.
"What we need to question, in the first place, was how those 298 POGO licensees were able to secure their licensees in the past because clearly, during our cleansing process, we found most of them to be ineligible and outright suspicious," Tengco said."We are also ready to reveal the roles of other controversial individuals behind these criminal POGO enterprises," he added.
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