‘Jueteng’ returns in Olongapo; STL bet cards used
By Tonette Orejas (Inquirer)
CAMP OLIVAS, PAMPANGA—There were attempts to resume the illegal numbers game jueteng during the weekend in Pampanga and Olongapo City as its legal replacement, the small town lottery (STL), restarted its dry run in Angeles City and Bataan last week.
Seven suspected jueteng cobradores (collectors) were arrested in separate operations in the City of San Fernando and Santo Tomas town in Pampanga and in Olongapo City on April 1, according to Chief Supt. Alejandro Lapinid, Central Luzon police chief.
The suspects carried blank bet cards of STL and lotto, another state-run game, as they went about collecting bets for jueteng, its almost similar but illegal counterpart, reports showed.
The collectors carried jueteng paraphernalia, it was learned.
The government lotteries, Lapinid said, were “being used as cover.” However, he said the efforts to resume jueteng were not being done in an organized scale.
The game was stopped in Central Luzon in May last year when the Senate investigated the claims of whistleblowers that close relatives of President Macapagal-Arroyo were protecting the underground lottery.
Of the attempts for the game’s comeback, Lapinid said: “These appear to be isolated, done out of desperation by displaced collectors.”
The Arroyo administration hatched the STL project as an antidote to jueteng. The Aquino administration did the same but failed, with STL ending up as a front for jueteng operations.
CAMP OLIVAS, PAMPANGA—There were attempts to resume the illegal numbers game jueteng during the weekend in Pampanga and Olongapo City as its legal replacement, the small town lottery (STL), restarted its dry run in Angeles City and Bataan last week.
Seven suspected jueteng cobradores (collectors) were arrested in separate operations in the City of San Fernando and Santo Tomas town in Pampanga and in Olongapo City on April 1, according to Chief Supt. Alejandro Lapinid, Central Luzon police chief.
The suspects carried blank bet cards of STL and lotto, another state-run game, as they went about collecting bets for jueteng, its almost similar but illegal counterpart, reports showed.
The collectors carried jueteng paraphernalia, it was learned.
The government lotteries, Lapinid said, were “being used as cover.” However, he said the efforts to resume jueteng were not being done in an organized scale.
The game was stopped in Central Luzon in May last year when the Senate investigated the claims of whistleblowers that close relatives of President Macapagal-Arroyo were protecting the underground lottery.
Of the attempts for the game’s comeback, Lapinid said: “These appear to be isolated, done out of desperation by displaced collectors.”
The Arroyo administration hatched the STL project as an antidote to jueteng. The Aquino administration did the same but failed, with STL ending up as a front for jueteng operations.
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