Quote from: gunhell16 on Today at 10:25:28 AM

Quote from: Maslate on September 06, 2025, 02:50:07 PM

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-lacson

I think that's what I saw—a bet worth $100k that was lost in an instant without any regret. As the saying goes, money that wasn't earned through hard work or was stolen is worthless to them and they can just spend it carelessly.

Where do you see something like that, an engineer betting $100k on a single casino game? That kind of gambler, especially if they're a government official, should be executed because that's the people's tax money. It means the money came from projects they made substandard or from ghost projects where they took the money without actually doing the work,
only to waste it all on gambling.

They won't have any regrets for losing such amount if it happens that they didn't own the money.

This is the effect of abuse and greed and to bad that other people will suffer due to those grievous act they made.

I don't know how the government will react unto this latest findings but let see if this greedy engineers or officials will get penalize with their blatant abuse made. Since if they are backed with more powerful corrupt official then I guess there's nothing will happen in this case.