It's a big issue that's being talked in our country right now together with the massive online casinos that they're trying to push for a nationwide ban.
Are these casinos the same thing as a POGO (Philippines Offshore Gambling Operation)? I don't really understand what the difference is, or what a POGO is, but there's always talk of them getting busted.
No po. These casinos are local casinos that has a massive number of Filipino users. While with POGO, their users aren't us but mostly Chinese people from mainland. So it was few years ago when POGOs were banned but the local casinos aren't. The problem with POGOs was that they're also been used to scam us hiding in their operations.
Let's see how the government will tackle this because Ang isn't just someone that they can take down, he's got connections and mostly, money.
Really interesting that there is a 50 million PHP bounty on the head of the informant, which is suspected to be issued by corrupt police officers in the National Capitol Region (per what I read in the articles linked in the OP). That's a lot of dough, almost $1M USD. Hopefully the informant is being kept in tight security. I imagine he would have to supply some kind of evidence / testimony that can be corroborated with others. His life will never be the same, having to look over his shoulder for the rest of his days... Scary.
It's not just his life but also his family's safety is included here. He's a guy that's been with Ang for a very long time and now that he's exposed him, he's really made Ang angry and that's why there's a bounty on him. Ang said that he's been treated like a brother to him and now he betrayed him.