While the players are in China, the croupiers on their screens are often far away in studios in the Philippine capital Manila. Filipino officials say many of these operations are also run and staffed by Chinese nationals. Now, the Southeast Asian nation is shutting them down, concerned that the businesses have become fronts for a...
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Indonesia to cut access to online gambling sites in Philippines as crime surges
Indonesia to cut access to Philippine, Cambodian online gambling sites as crime surges Indonesia will cut off access points to websites operating out of Cambodia and Davao City in the Philippines that are suspected of being linked to online gambling. The Ministry of Communications instructed Indonesia’s telecommunications service providers to shut down lines that could...
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Some online gambling activities linked to money laundering, Indonesian minister says
JAKARTA: Communications and Information Minister Budi Arie Setiadi has alleged indications of money laundering in some online gambling activities traced by the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) in the first quarter. “It is not just online gambling, because there are several cases [of money laundering] where they got the [illicit] money from winning...