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KORONADAL CITY–The bid to resume small town lottery (STL) operations in South Cotabato province triggered a rift on Wednesday, Sept. 26, between Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. and Col. Joel Limson, the provincial police commander. Tamayo and Limson traded barbs over the arrest of Walter Ozaeta, a small town lottery (STL) operator known by his alias Mike Macalindong who happened to be facing charges of kidnapping in Batangas province. The governor ordered Ozaeta’s arrest following their Sept. 19 meeting at the governor’s satellite office in Tupi, the governor’s hometown, after Tamayo learned about Ozaeta’s case from a local official in Batangas. Tamayo accused the police chief, Limson, of “not doing his homework.” “He should have conducted a background check,” said the governor. “This guy has a warrant of arrest for kidnapping,” Tamayo said in Filipino. Ozaeta, 35, resident of San Jose town, Batangas province, had been endorsed to Tamayo by Limson, paving the way for a discussion on...

Balik na sa normal ang operasyon ng Lotto sa bansa. Ito ang sinabi ni Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo sa interview niya ngayong gabi sa ANC’s The World Tonight. Dagdag pa ni Panelo na ang pag-lift sa suspensyon ng lotto games ay ‘effective immediately.’ Matatandaan na noong Biyernes ng gabi, July 26 ay inanunsyo ng Pangulo ang pagpapatigil sa mga Lotto games dahil umano sa talamak na katiwaliaan at korapsyon sa Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). Umani naman ng iba’t ibang reaksyon ang hakbang na ito ng Pangulo sa publiko. Source:  Remate News Team https://remate.ph/operasyon-ng-lotto-balik-normal-na-suspensyon-tinigil-na-ni-pdu30/

Bong Go MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Monday said President Rodrigo Duterte’s investigation of corruption in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) would be swift, holding out hope of an early return of the agency’s gaming operations that he ordered closed during the weekend. The shutdown has left thousands of small investors suddenly out of business and their employees without jobs. As of Monday, police had padlocked 30,284 PCSO gaming outlets. Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo gave assurance of an early conclusion to the investigation, noting that the President worked fast and wanted to get to the bottom of a “grand conspiracy” in the PCSO that led him to order the immediate closure of lotto, small town lottery (STL), Peryahan ng Bayan and Keno. Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, a former special aide to the President, also said the closures were temporary, but the outlets would remain shut until corruption in the PCSO had been eliminated. Verbal ...

MANILA-  (UPDATE)  The ban on all gaming schemes of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) will stay until the government finishes its investigation into alleged corruption within the state gaming regulator, Malacañang said Monday. President Rodrigo Duterte will  identify  all personalities involved in the massive corruption within the PCSO "in due time," his spokesman Salvador Panelo said.   "Sa ngayon kasi sabi nga ni Presidente iniimbistigahan niyang maigi. I-identify niya lahat. Until such time na hindi pa natatapos yung imbestigasyon, sarado muna 'yan," Panelo told radio DZMM. (Right now, the President said he will investigate it thoroughly. He will identify everyone. Until such time that the investigation is concluded, all of those stores will remain closed.) The PCSO meanwhile assured the Palace that it will continue to follow President Duterte' suspension order until further notice. "The PCSO supports the decision of our de...

MANILA, Philippines – Court Administrator Jose Midas Marquez on Monday ordered all judges and branch clerk of courts nationwide to do an inventory of all pending cases involving the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and inform him of its status. “The PCSO cases report form shall be submitted on or before August 15, 2019 accompanied by a certification from the Judge and Branch Clerk of Court concerned. Strict compliance is hereby enjoined,” read the Office of the Court Administrator Circular. The order was issued in view of the “serious allegations of massive corruption” involving small town lottery and other gaming franchises by the PCSO. Marquez said some cases have already reached the courts. The Court Administrator said he issued the circular after discussions with Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin.

President Rodrigo Duterte's surprise order is borne of his frustration over supposedly corrupt PCSO personnel resisting their transfers to other sectors, says an insider Many a person's Friday night was ruined when Malacañang aired President Rodrigo Duterte's  "special message"  in which he ordered a stop to all gaming operations regulated by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PSCO). Aired late night on Friday, July 26, the video was a surprise to many. Even more so when the next day, PCSO officials said they would ask the President to reconsider his order, indicating they did not agree with it and would have likely advised against it. So what triggered Duterte's blanket order? A source close to the President said that while Duterte has long raged over PCSO corruption, what drove him to issue a new directive was word that allegedly corrupt PCSO officials and employees were fighting a PCSO board decision to reassign them to another sector. ...

If the intention is to stop gambling altogether, then all forms of gambling, including the PAGCOR-regulated games like casinos and online should have been included. Since it doesn’t appear that way, then lotto outlets should have been spared since there are no reports of revenue cheating as far as lotto operations are concerned because they are computerized and automated and therefore closely monitored – unlike STL where PCSO, for millions of reasons, has consistently resisted to make it more transparent and foolproof. More at: https://pinglacson.net/2019/07/28/on-the-pcsos-problem-with-corruption/

MANILA – The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Saturday said it would ask President Rodrigo Duterte to reconsider his order suspending its games, just as police started shutting down lotto and other gaming outlets in parts of the country.  In a video statement, PCSO officials said the agency would readily comply with the President’s order but that it would seek the resumption of its gaming operations, citing its mandate and beneficiaries.  “Pursuant to the order of the President suspending PCSO’s gaming activities, the PCSO board directs compliance to said instruction until further notice,” the PCSO said.  PCSO operations include the lotto, Peryahan ng Bayan, small town lottery (STL), and Keno. Part of its proceeds go to medical assistance and calamity aid.  “Rest assured that the PCSO shall appeal to the Office of the President for the resumption of the conduct of all games to PCSO’s mandate and for the interest of the PCSO, its agents...

MANILA, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered all gaming activities of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), including lotto, stopped due to alleged “massive corruption” in the agency. In a video message posted by Malacañang on Facebook, Duterte lamented how courts supposedly got into corruption by issuing injunctions to stop the government from going after the perpetrators of fraudulent activities. Following this announcement, Philippine National Police chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde, told radio station DZMM early Saturday that police teams would be deployed “first thing in the morning” to shut down lotto and other PCSO gaming outlets throughout the country. “I have today ordered the closure, the stoppage of all gaming schemes or whatever nature however done that got the franchises to do so from the PCSO. The ground is massive corruption involving all…pati the courts who repeatedly issued injunctions to paralyze government and to allow corruption to thr...

CITY OF ILAGAN –– Lotto bettors and outlet operators here on Saturday were surprised by President Duterte’s order to stop all gaming activities under the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. Lotto outlet teller Solita Delos Reyes, who oversees a shop at the Northstar Mall in Alibagu village here, said she was told by her employer that Mr. Duterte’s order was official and that they had to immediately stop their operation. “Wala nang kita, wala pang suweldo, sarado kami eh (No income, no salary. We are already closed.),” she told the Inquirer. Bettors who queued at lotto outlets said they were also shocked to learn about the nationwide crackdown on PSCO gaming activities. Felix Cuntapay said he was supposed to play for the jackpot prize after getting three correct numbers during last night’s game. Duterte ordered the stoppage of all PCSO gaming outlets nationwide due to alleged massive corruption in the agency.

Update MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte had named Police Col. Royina Garma as the next Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager. Col. Royina Garma, Cebu City Police Office chief. Photo by Junjie Mendoza / Inquirer Visayas Update MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte had named Police Col. Royina Garma as the next Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager. “[She] will replace Balutan,” Duterte told reporters after gracing the premiere of “Kontradiksyon,” a political action thriller about the administration’s war on drug. “Balutan has been out. Garma will replace him,” he added. Duterte was referring to Alexander Balutan who resigned in March after corruption allegations were hurled against him.

BACOLOD CITY –– The medical assistance for indigent patients provided by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) in Negros Occidental has been reduced from P211,200,000 to P133,056,000. The reduction took effect last April 15, PCSO acting branch manager Jose Manuel Villagracia said. The amount, he said, was cut to raise funds for indigent patients at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) in Bacolod City and other poorer areas in the Philippines. The fund allotted for the CLMMRH was increased from P100,000 a day (22 days a month) to P245,000 a day retroactive to January. This means CLMMRH would receive P64,680,000 or an increase of P38,280,000 this year from PCSO, he said. The PCSO was releasing P800,000 a day in assistance in Negros Occidental up to April 14, when the amount was reduced to P504,000 a day, retroactive to January 1, Villagracia said. That means the PCSO Negros Occidental branch would be releasing a reduced amo...

MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) has ordered the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to follow the decision of the Court of Appeals decision to allow the Peryahan Ng Bayan numbers game to proceed, pending the resolution of the legal dispute involving their terminated contract. “PCSO has to immediately comply with the CA’s directive; otherwise, the Board of Directors is vulnerable to indirect contempt,” read the legal opinion signed by Assistant Government Corporate Counsel Efren Gonzales. The OGCC, through Gonzales, said the PCSO must “continue sending a representative daily to the draw centers of Globaltech for the conduct of the Peryahan Games,” which the agency has reportedly defied. Last Jan. 15, the CA affirmed the 2016 status quo ante order (SQAO) issued by Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 161 stopping PCSO’s revocation of the deed of authority for PNB operations of Globaltech. The CA also ordere...

MANILA, Philippines – February 2019 has indeed been a lucky month for Lotto bettors. It is only halfway through the month but five people were already millionaires after bagging the millions-worth of jackpots of Lotto games, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) said Monday. In only a span of six days, the PCSO has announced five millionaires and has given away over P46 million in jackpot prizes. “Katatapos ng Chinese New Year nung February 5. Meron na naman tayong limang bagong milyonaryo sa pagitan ng anim na araw,” PCSO) General Manager Alexander Balutan said in a statement. Balutan said the latest winner won the over P5 million jackpot of the Lotto 6/42 draw last Saturday, Feb. 9. The winning ticket was bought in Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental. Last Friday, Feb. 8, a bettor from Borongan, Eastern Samar, bagged the P8.9 million jackpot of the Mega Lotto 6/45 after guessing the winning combination of 30-16-25-26-31-10. The day before, Thu...

MANILA, Philippines — A lucky bettor from Cebu will take home over P239 million after getting the winning combination for the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s (PCSO) Grand Lotto 6/55 on Monday. In a post on its official Facebook page on Tuesday, the PCSO said the winning combination for the 6/55 jackpot was 17-07-38-08-05-10 on the Jan. 21 draw. The sole winner won exactly P239,204,944. The PSCO said the winning bet was placed from a Lucky Circle Corp. outlet at SM City, Cebu. Meanwhile, 35 other bettors won P46,400 by guessing five numbers from the winning combination. No one still won the P59 million jackpot of the Mega Lotto 6/45. /cbb

With the “live” lotto jackpot prize topping the P1.1-billion mark, a House lawmaker has proposed that future winners be allowed to have a say on how the government should spend the taxes collected on their winnings. Under Aangat Tayo party-list Rep. Harlin Neil Abayon III’s proposed measure, which he filed on Tuesday, any winner of a lotto prize over P10,000 may give instructions to the national government as to how the 20-percent tax on the prize money would be used. ‘Empowered winner’ House Bill No. 8418, or the Lotto Major Winner Empowerment Act, states that the lotto winner shall be “empowered to determine and specify in a notarized letter addressed to the President of the Philippines, the public school, public hospital, government scholarship or educational assistance program, government project, or barangay to which the final tax shall be allocated and spent.” Abayon said that under the current law, it was up to the national government how it would spend the tax fr...

A couple from Louisiana have more than a million reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving after discovering a long lost jackpot-winning lottery ticket with only two weeks left to claim it. Harold and Tina Ehrenberg found the $1.8 million winning ticket, which won the southern US state's June 6 Lottery Lotto draw, while doing some holiday cleaning. "We have family coming into town for Thanksgiving, so I was cleaning up the house and found a few lottery tickets on my nightstand that we hadn't checked," Tina said, according to a statement by Louisiana Lottery. The couple checked the Lottery's website and soon found one of the tickets matched all of the numbers listed, and were able to claim their prize with just two weeks remaining of the 180-day limit After state and federal taxes, the Ehrenbergs take home $1,274,313, which they plan to put away for their retirement. "We don't have any plans to buy anything crazy or go on any big trips," T...

MAYNILA - Matapos mamigay ng balato, ano nga ba ang dapat na gawin ng nanalo sa Ultra Lotto sa kaniyang napanalunan? Ayon sa financial analyst na si Astro del Castillo, hindi naman maiiwasan ang pamimigay ng balato sa mga kaibigan at kakilala, lalo na sa mga probinsiya. Ngunit mas mainam umano na huwag masyadong ipaalam ng isang tao na siya ang nanalo sa lotto. "Huwag siyang maging maluho agad at huwag niyang masyadong i-announce na siya ang nanalo," ani Del Castillo. Payo rin niya na mag-enroll sa mga financial literacy classes ang nasabing nanalo sa Ultra Lotto para mas mapalago niya ang kaniyang napanalunan. "Madaling kumita ng malaki pero mahirap po talagang i-preserve, i-maintain 'yung ganoong kalaking pera," ani Del Castillo. "Sana magkaroon siya ng attitude na investment goal, financial goal every year para alam niya kung ano 'yung gagastusin... At the end of the day, kailangan niya i-educate ang sarili niya," dagdag pa niya. ...

6/45 LOTTO JACKPOT WINNER – Another solo bettor won the multi-million jackpot prize of the 6/45 Mega Lotto on December 3, 2018. Last November 30, 2018, a solo bettor has won a jackpot prize of Php 76,941,062.00. Daily, many Filipinos are hopeful of winning any of the major lotto games of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). Each has a multi-million jackpot prize. The PCSO has five major lotto games such as the 6/58 Ultra Lotto, 6/55 Grand Lotto, 6/49 Super Lotto, 6/45 Mega Lotto, and 6/42 Lotto. They have different draws. Just today, one of the draws is the 6/45 Mega Lotto. And a solo bettor became the 6/45 Lotto winner as he or she gets the winning combination for the December 3, 2018 draw. The winning combination for the December 3, 2018 draw of the 6/45 Mega Lotto was 06-10-18-02-31-26. The 6/45 Lotto winner won the jackpot prize Php 8,910,000.00. The said monetary prize is subject to a 20% tax deduction pursuant to the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclu...

TACLOBAN CITY—One of the two winners of the record-high P1.18-billion lotto jackpot played Santa Claus way ahead of Christmas, giving away P5,000 each to his former coworkers in the city government of Borongan, Eastern Samar province, early this week. The winner, a middle-aged man who has since left town with his family after claiming half of the Ultra Lotto 6/58 prize, also handed out cash to several tricycle drivers amounting to P1,500 each. One of the beneficiaries was Dorothy Abenis, a staff member of Mayor Ma. Fe Abunda, who received her P5,000 on Wednesday. “We are really very thankful to him because he never forgot about us in sharing his blessings. As far as I know, he was the second lotto winner from Borongan but he was the first to share his winnings,” Abenis said in a phone interview. ‘Early Christmas bonus’ According to Abenis, close to 1,000 regular and casual workers at City Hall received P5,000 each from the instant multimillionaire, the money coursed through t...