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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
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ILOILO City – A former police officer was caught taking bets for the illegal numbers game “bookies” yesterday in Barangay Tanza Timawa, City Proper.
Retired Senior Police Officer 2 Eduardo Madrid, 61, faces a charge for violation of Republic 9287 that outlaws illegal gambling. He was detained at Police Station 1.
A resident of Barangay San Juan, Molo district, Madrid was a former police intelligence officer.
He tried to flee after seeing policemen out to arrest him around 1 p.m., said Chief Inspector Aldrin Lamera, Police Station 1 chief.
“There was a brief chase. He was driving a motorcycle,” said Lamera.
Madrid operated in the City Proper and Molo, according to the police chief.
The “bookies” operator of Madrid held draws in Jaro district, he added.
Lamera described the former policeman as “too elusive.”
“We have been tailing Madrid for days,” he said.
Madrid could suffer the penalty of imprisonment of from eight years to 10 years if found guilty by the court as collector or agent of “bookies.”
Republic Act 9287 defines a collector or agent (cabo, cobrador, coriador or variants thereof) as “any person who collects, solicits or produces bets in behalf of his/her principal for any illegal numbers game who is usually in possession of gambling paraphernalia.”
Senior Superintendent Remus Zacharias Canieso, city police director, confirmed the existence of “bookies” in the city despite the operation of the government-sanctioned Small Town Lottery designed primarily to stamp out illegal gambling.
He reminded his men to be assiduous in the campaign against illegal gambling just as they were persistent in the war against illegal drugs.
“Hindi tayo pabaya sa illegal gambling,” said Canieso.
Recently, Canieso asked around a hundred bet takers or coridores of STL to refrain from working for illegal STL operators or “bookies.”
“We want you to prosper,” Canieso told the bet takers. “And so we need to help each other. You can help by remitting bets to the authorized corporation only. The money you generate will help the government achieve its programs for public welfare. It can build hospitals and schools. It is only by eliminating illegal players that we can perform our tasks smoothly.”
The STL bet takers are entitled to 10 percent commission plus an added two percent as incentive. Forty percent of remitted bets are remitted to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office while the balance of 48 percent goes to the franchisee, which apportions it for operating expenses, government fees, winners’ prizes and whatever is left for profit./PN
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