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Roque faces human trafficking charge over POGO links
The Philippine Star
|October 29, 2024
Former presidential spokesman Harry Roque is facing a complaint for qualified human trafficking before the Department of Justice (DOJ) over his alleged links to the raided Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) hub in Porac, Pampanga.
The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) as well as the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) yesterday filed a supplemental complaint, which included Roque in the human trafficking case earlier lodged against Lucky South 99 authorized representative Cassandra Li Ong and 53 others.
This story is from the October 29, 2024 edition of The Philippine Star.
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