Philippines bust another China-run illegal online betting operation

Philippine authorities have broken up yet another Chinese-run illegal online gambling operation.

On Wednesday, Philippine media reported that the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) had detained a Chinese national accused of operating an unauthorized online gambling business from a commercial building in Makati.

Police seized around 100 computers and detained 60 employees of the illegal betting operation. Fifty of the detainees were Chinese nationals, none of whom had valid work permits, having apparently entered the country on tourist visas. The staffers have been turned over to the NCRPO for further questioning and likely deportation.

Zhang Hai Long is listed as general manager of Haoying Solutions Inc, which had registered as a business process outsourcing (BPO) center in the Cagayan Economic Zone but was supposed to be operating from within Cagayan, not in Makati. Haoying also held a Bureau of Internal Revenue permit that expired three years ago.