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Should government officials be banned to enter gambling premises?
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happybitcoinph
on 07/09/2025, 17:41:15 UTC
Referring to this thread, Engineers, DPWH Bulacan officials blew 300m each in casinos?, it's not a secret already that in the Philippines, some government officials and employees can lurk in physical casinos despite the 2016 Memorandum Circular No. 06, which prohibits government officials from gambling in casinos, and Article 178 of the Revised Penal Code, which bans the public use of a false name to conceal a crime.

Established legal physical casinos here in PH are aware of that memorandum, and as a solid established business, they are following it. However, at some point, they can't determine right away if one of their customers is a government-affiliated person because of these people's trick to not be recognized easily, as they will just act as a normal customer.

How about in other gambling-friendly countries? Like those countries that are popularly known for having big physical casinos.

Do they allow government officials to enter gambling premises?