It's not shrouded, it's a show of unfettered corruption that's not investigated or stopped by the authorities because they're part of the bottom line that benefits from all of this. I guess they already know that there's no backlash against the Filipino people that they're not afraid to do even this crazy display of corruption. From what I've heard, they're excusing this mishap as a way to disguise the identity of the winner but from what I've recalled there's no proof of the winning ticket that was presented so it's definitely a fake win so they can takeaway all that money for themselves.
Yup! That was aired on the news the last time, funny to think that they have a lot of money but can't afford to hire a professional digital and photo editor, even a high school student nowadays can even edit clearly than their editors. Seems like they don't have one, knowing that they are one of the richest governement agency. They literally make fun of themselves, I don't know if it's intentional so that they can be talked about more on social media or what. Well, until now most Filipinos still don't believe that there is a winner of the winning jackpot prize because if there is, it will resonate on social media and everyone will recognize who the winner is.
Oh, they do have a lot of money, it just so happens that they're a government agency and government workers are hilariously underpaid, much lower than the minimum wage in the country so that's not really an excuse that they're not paying the right amount for their employees, they just don't want to because they want to cut costs as much as possible because they're "budgeting" the taxpayer's money when that's not really the case even if they deny it.