GAMBLING lords are using dummies to operate the Small Town Lottery (STL) of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) as a cover-up for “jueteng,” the popular illegal numbers game, a resource person at the Senate hearing on the embattled state-run charity organization said on Monday.
Antonio Bago, a former police officer, who worked as provincial manager of Even Chance Gaming Corp. in Camarines Sur from March 2010 to February 2011, admitted before the Committee on Games and Amusement that he was aware that alleged gambling lord, Bong Pineda, owned the firm and that he was using a certain Nestor Napa as dummy to be able to operate STL in Camarines Sur and the Visayas.
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