Daily Serving of Legal Matters

Since the announcement of Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte for the Philippine National Police to halt its operation on war against drugs and shift the fight against illegal gambling, hundreds of suspected individuals were apprehended allegedly involved with illegal gambling nationwide. In General Santos City for instance, there are at least 4 suspects are brought before our office for inquest investigation.  There suspects are either violating Presidential Decree (P.D.) No. 1602 or Republic Act No. 9287. It might be noteworthy to consider because the police officers are doing their job as mandated by law, but, most, if not all, of the suspects apprehended belong to the poorest of the poor.  We are still waiting at the time when we would face suspects who are the financier of these illegal gambling games. This image is taken from google. The following are the gambling laws of the Philippines: PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1602 It amended the criminal provis...

A photo of a lotto outlet thronged with bettors.  It is taken from romblonngayon.blogspot.com through Google. Last Two is  an illegal numbers game where the winning combination is derived from the last two (2) numbers of the first prize of the winning Sweepstakes ticket which comes out during the weekly draw of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), and its variants. Today, last two is not only derived from the weekly draw of PCSO but from the popular LOTTO games. As a matter of fact, sometimes the queue would be likened to a box-office hit movie because these games really draw a magnitude of people. However, not all people hooked with lotto games would find themselves betting in authorized lotto outlets.  Most of them would bet on illegal numbers games of last two and most often than not in persons called collectors of last two. Another picture of lotto outlet taken from www.interaksyon.com via Google. Who are bettors? Bettor ("Mananaya", "Tayador" or va...