GAMBLING lords are using dummies to operate the Small Town Lottery (STL) of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) as a cover-up for “jueteng,” the popular illegal numbers game, a resource person at the Senate hearing on the embattled state-run charity organization said on Monday. Bago said he was introduced to the younger Pineda by his father-in-law, whom he identified as “Tata Ore”. He admitted that when he was provincial manager for Even Chance, the corporation came up with a system that would enable it to operate STL and “jueteng” at the same time. Bago said that during his time, the average income of PCSO in Camarines Sur alone was about P5 million a day but not everything was remitted to the agency. Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Ray Villafuerte, who was also present at the Senate hearing insisted that the Pineda’s Even Chance violated the law because it was using dummies, adding that there have been reports that apart from Camarines Sur, Pineda also managed to operate in other parts of the country.

Source: Manila Times February 12, 2018 08:48 UTC