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?
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https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/02/2469907/dpwh-engineers-blew-over-p300-million-casinos-says-lacsonThis story is yet another proof that gambling addiction is the worst mental illness ever. Committing crimes and getting involved in corruption just to waste the money on casinos. Some people would call this stupidity at it's finest, but a mental illness cannot be explained with stupidity.
Those government officials probably thought that their crimes would continue forever and their gambling addiction would finally be satisfied some day. This is complete delusion. This Alcantara guy, who admits playing "2-3 times a month" is obviously lying. I really hope that those people will get punished and sent to jail.