MANILA: It started with a raid on a Chinese-run online gambling centre north of Manila where hundreds of foreigners and Filipinos were forced to run scams or risk torture.
This photo taken on Jul 18, 2024, shows a detained former scam centre worker walking along the detention rooms of a scam centre in Manila that has been shut down by police.
Alice Leal Guo, the mayor of Bamban, where the raided scam centre was metres from the municipal hall, has been accused of human trafficking and money laundering in relation to the operation.Alice Guo, mayor of the small Philippine town of Bamban, is under investigation for alleged links with Chinese crime syndicates.
This photo taken on Jul 19, 2024, shows a general view of a scam centre in Bamban, province of Tarlac. Victims have reported travelling across the region, often on the pretence of romance or high-paying jobs but finding themselves forced instead to cajole people into ploughing money into fake investment platforms and other ruses.
They flourished under former president Rodrigo Duterte after the government regulator was given the right to issue operating licences nationwide. Casio said"heads need to roll" among public officials, including mayors and police chiefs, who have allowed the scam centres to operate in plain sight. This photo taken on Jul 19, 2024, shows a building inside a scam centre in Bamban, province of Tarlac.
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