[Closer Look] Drugs, POGOs, Quiboloy: Duterte’s tyranny at the service of corruption

Without Rodrigo Duterte, there would not be POGO crime hubs. Six years of tyranny had one overarching goal: instill a climate of fear to discourage inquiries into his policies.

Sta. Rosa Representative Dan Fernandez on September 4 gave this blunt summary of the tangled skeins of offshore gaming hubs that Philippine lawmakers have been trying to unravel.Vast complexes rise on rural farmlands as hordes of foreign nationals swamp the capital’s gated villages and condominiums.

As lawmakers in the capital hack at layers of POGO-linked corruption, thousands of cops in Davao City search for another fugitive, Apollo Quiboloy, the self-proclaimed son of God accused of the sexual abuse of women and minors, human trafficking, and money laundering. Police officials, quiescent for decades, say that Quiboloy’s 30-hectare complex hosts an underground labyrinth; a private taxiway leads to the Davao International Airport.

Retired, dismissed, and active police have told the quad committee House of Representatives probe that Duterte’s actions actually strengthened the country’s drug woes. From 2017 to 2019, the Anti-Money Laundering Council monitored P14 billion worth of suspicious transactions in the sector, including the SPs.

The Cambridge Dictionary has a very clear definition of paymaster: “a person of an organization that pays for something to happen and therefore has or expects to have some control over it.”Yang’s brother, Hong Jiang Yang, had P3.3 billion worth of transactions with Guo.

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