Just read a report that 2 DPWH Bulacan officials, one a district engineer, the other a staff, blew around P300M (or over $5 million) each in casino gambling, even using aliases. This came out in the Senate Blue Ribbon probe on ghost flood projects.
One of them, Engr. Henry Alcantara, admitted playing 2–3 times a month, while his aide Brice Hernandez bet even bigger. Aside from that, they’re also accused of forging signatures and pocketing funds.
Question is, how can gov officials gamble that big when their salary won’t even cover a fraction of it? Corruption? Loans? What do you think?
source :
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/02/2469907/dpwh-engineers-blew-over-p300-million-casinos-says-lacsonInside the government there are many of them that are very corrupt, their jobs is to embezzled money. If the government can embezzle money they can also gamble with the money because they did not work to make them. All they do is to forge signatures and steal money they are supposed to use for project that will serve the person. A person that works for his money will not be able to gamble with that huge money in a one or two times bet. I am not surprised to see the amount some of the government body is using to gamble.