Mayor Rowena Lizares called on residents of Talisay City, Negros Occidental to stay alert after police dismantled an alleged illegal online cockfighting or e-sabong operation in Barangay Concepcion, Talisay on April 23. Lizares urged residents to report any information related to illegal online...
There are truthful allegations, and then there are fake ones. And in the case of the raid on an online sabong site in Tondo, Manila, the National Police Commission (Napolcom) said the cases filed against the operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) are plain and simple...
The police major who was tagged as protector of online sabong in the Visayas was sacked from his post and is now under restrictive custody amid the ongoing investigation into the extent of the network of the illegal gambling activity, an official of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group...
BACOLOD CITY – Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Monday, April 27, named Police Major Edgar Tonico Jr., chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Bacolod, as an alleged e-sabong protector in Negros Island. Remulla’s revelation came three days after...
SOLANO, Nueva Vizcaya – Police arrested 26 individuals for illegal online cockfighting or e-sabong at the Solano Cockpit Arena in Barangay Roxas here on Sunday, April 12. The suspects were residents of Nueva Ecija, Baguio City, and Solano. Solano police chief Police Major John Anthony Sanchez...
Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered all police units to intensify the campaign against online sabong hubs as part of the efforts to dismantle all organized illegal gambling networks across the country. “We are intensifying...
A total of 172 cockfighting enthusiasts and other individuals were apprehended by the Manila Police District (MPD) and Criminal Investigation and Detection Group National Capital Region (CIDG NCR) on Tuesday, March 24, for engaging in e-sabong. According to the authorities, they received a tip...
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) on Tuesday, September 30, exposed a massive network of illegal online gambling in the Philippines—revealing more than 1,000 unlicensed gambling websites and over 100 social media influencers promoting illicit operations. CICC’s Threat...
BACOLOD CITY – A 30-year-old woman was recently arrested in Barangay Cabug here for embezzling around P900,000 from her former employer for online “sabong” or cockfighting. Police Capt. Glenn Montaño, head of Police Station 10, said the suspect worked in a virtual marketing company here for...
Online cockfighting, or e-sabong, continues to operate illegally on unregulated gambling platforms despite a nationwide ban, according to a new study from Filipino-focused sociocultural research firm The Fourth Wall. The report, which examined key operational areas of regulated and unregulated...
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill seeking to comprehensively ban all forms of online gambling and their promotion in the Philippines. Legarda explained that the unprecedented move that would cover licensed casinos to smartphones has exposed the most vulnerable sectors of society to addiction,...
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro – Police arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly engaging in illegal online sabong or cockfightng on Saturday night, September 7, in Gloria town, this province. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Oriental Mindoro Provincial Field Unit...
