PCSO disowns ‘online jueteng’
By Jaymee T. Gamil
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) washed its hands off the alleged “online jueteng” operations of one of its lotto operators.
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) washed its hands off the alleged “online jueteng” operations of one of its lotto operators.
The P302.8 million in bonuses the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) allegedly gave its employees in 2011 went to pay their “unpaid taxes and other benefits,” PCSO chairperson Margarita Juico said on Monday.
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) gave P302.8 million in Christmas and grocery bonuses and various allowances to its employees in 2011, using funds intended for personnel retirement benefits, according to the Commission on Audit (COA).
Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Director Manuel L. Morato on Tuesday asked the Sandiganbayan to allow him to post bail in the plunder case filed against him in connection with the alleged embezzlement of P366 million of the PCSO’s intelligence funds when he was a director.
Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) board member Manuel “Manoling” Morato on Tuesday said he was surprised that he was included as respondent in the plunder charge filed against former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for the alleged misuse of P365.99-million PCSO funds.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday said it found probable cause against former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chair Manuel “Manoling” Morato, for violation of election laws when he used his television show in 2010 to endorse the candidacies of Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and actor Edu Manzano for president and vice president.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer last Sunday ran as its top story a review of the cash aid being given by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to over 100 charitable institutions, many of them run by the Catholic Church, nationwide. Among the institutions that may no longer be given money by the state gambling firm-cum-charity [...]
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) did not liquidate its intelligence funds for election years 2004 and 2007, the Senate learned on Thursday. Senate finance chair Franklin Drilon said Grace Pulido-Tan of the Commission on Audit (COA) complained during the budget hearing of her agency’s 2012 allocation about the lack of transparency in the perusal [...]
The jackpot prize for the 6/55 Grand Lotto of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) is expected to reach P125 million after nobody hit the winning combination at last Wednesday’s draw. No ticket sold had the six-number combination of 55-47-24-20-39-37, said Jose Ferdinand Rojas II, PCSO general manager. Close to 22,000 ticket holders, however, won [...]
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Thursday turned over a P10-million donation to some families of victims of the Maguindanao massacre of 2009. PCSO Chair Margarita Juico said most of the beneficiaries were families of nonmedia massacre victims or those who had not yet received financial assistance from the agency. Each family got a [...]
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna—A legislator from this province said the shares her district received from operations of Small Town Lottery (STL) went directly for medical services of people in the district, adding she never received cash from the state-run game. Rep. Ivy Arago (third district) said she specifically requested medicines from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office [...]
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Tuesday admitted it had no knowledge of the actual gross sales of its small town lottery (STL) program which was handled by 30,000 to 40,000 operators from all over the country, thereby depriving it of much needed revenues. In a budget hearing of the House appropriations committee, PCSO [...]
While Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma sees nothing wrong with the fund raising campaign aimed at buying vehicles for Philippine bishops, two ranking members of the Cebu clergy have expressed reservations about the fund drive. Msgr. Achilles Dakay, media liason officer of the Cebu Archdiocese and Msgr. Esteban Binghay, episcopal vicar, differed with Archbishop Palma on [...]
