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IAG APR 2020年4月 亞博匯 15 PHILIPPINES AML COUNCIL DEMANDS TOUGHER POGO REGULATION DUE TO INCREASING CRIMINAL THREATS 犯罪威脅上升，菲律賓反洗錢委 員會要求加強對POGO的監管 THE Philippines Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) has warned of an “increasing level of threat to money laundering and other fraudulent activities” in the country’s online gaming industry as a result of unregulated and unsupervised service providers. Releasing its study on internet-based casinos, the AMLC highlighted a range of issues with the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) industry, primarily around the role played by service providers (SPs). Under the Philippines’ online gaming model, there are currently 59 licenses POGOs under which 218 SPs are operating various online gaming sites. The AMLC noted a range of issues it faced while conducting onsite compliance checks of the POGO industry, namely the lack of local agents and authorized representatives in the Philippines despite regulations requiring the presence of a local agent. The AMLC also said it could not locate the compliance officers of any POGOs at any provided addresses, with SPs unaware of their existence, and that the POGOs it visited had no anti-money laundering (AML) or counter-terrorism financing (CTF) compliance units. 菲律賓 反洗錢委員會（AMLC）警告稱，由於服務 供應商未受監管，該國的網絡博彩行業「面臨洗 錢和其他欺詐活動的威脅日益嚴重。」 反洗錢委員會在發佈一份關於網絡賭場的 研究報告時，圍繞服務供應商（SP）的角色，重點 研究了一系列與菲律賓離岸遊戲運營商（POGO） 行業相關的現象。根據菲律賓的網絡博彩模式， 目前有59個持牌POGO公司，及218家服務供應商 （SP）在經營各個網絡博彩遊戲站點。 反洗錢委員會指出，其在嘗試對POGO行業 進行現場合規檢查時遇到的一系列問題，包括缺 乏菲律賓本地代理商和授權代表，儘管法規要求 POGO公司須在菲律賓當地設本地代理商。 反洗錢委員會還表示，無法在任何提供的地 址找到任何POGO的合規負責人，服務供應商甚 至不知曉前者的存在，並且其所造訪的POGO公 司沒有按照規定設置反洗錢（AML）及反恐怖融資 （CTF）部門。