DILG + PNP = JUETENG
by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
Privilege speech on 22 September 2010)
PROTECTION MONEY TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS
Money from jueteng bets are called gross receipts. The biggest gross receipts in Luzon are, in order of amount, on a daily, repeat daily, basis are:
2. Pampanga - P 9 M
3. Pangasinan - P 9 M
4. Batangas - P 8.5 M
5. Bulacan - P 8 M
6. Nueva Ecija - P 7.5 M
7. Quezon - P 7.5 M
From this daily income, the jueteng operator has to subtract his operation expenses of 34 percent, itemized as follows:
Cabo - 02%
Cobrador - 10%
Management - 22%
= 34% Operation Expenses
After subtracting operation expenses, and the jueteng prize money, the operator proceeds to pay, on a monthly basis, protection money to syndicates at various levels, arranged form the highest level, as follows:
A. National Level
1% to the syndicate consisting of: DILG secretary or undersecretary, PNP chief, and CIDG head.
2% to the PCSO syndicate consisting of: PCSO chair, general manager, board directors, legal department, Romualdo Quiñones, a certain Sabella, and taxes. The operator pays so-called taxes consisting of 5% of the gross, plus 2% for the receipts known as papeletos.
1% to the syndicate consisting of the Games and Amusement Board, Intelligence Officer, and to media.
B. Provincial and Regional Level
3% to the syndicate consisting of the governor, vice-governor, and Sanggunian Panlunsod members.
1% to the PNP Provincial Director.
.2% to the NBI Provincial Director (Point 2 percent)
1% to the syndicate consisting of PNP Regional Director, or in Metro Manila to the NCR Police Organization, the Regional 2, and the Regional MG.
C. Municipal Level
5% to the syndicate consisting of the mayor, vice-mayor, and Sanggunian Bayan members.
2% to the congressman
1% to the local chief of police
THE OPERATORS: REGIONS 1 TO 5
I shall now proceed to name the jueteng operators for each region, arranged by province. I cover only Regions 1 to 5, because my informants are still compiling information from other regions. I commend the province of Aurora and Governor Bellaflor Angara Castillo, because apparently there is no jueteng to speak of in Aurora.
It appears that the Top Operators, in terms of provinces covered, are:
Atong Ang
Danny Soriano
Bong Pineda
Aging Lisan
Tony Santos
Location / Daily Income / Jueteng Operator / Numbers Game
REGION I
Ilocos Norte / 2 M / Gov. Singson / 1-37
Ilocos Sur / 2 M / Gov. Singson / 1-37
Abra / 900,000 / Bonito Singson / 1-37
La Union / 800,000 / Cong. Singson / 1-37
Pangasinan / 9 M / M. Urduña / Boy Bata 1-37
REGION II
Nueva Vizcaya / 1.5 M / Atong Ang (Double A) Virtual 2
Isabela / 3.5 M / Atong Ang (Double A) Virtual 2
Cagayan / 1.4 M / Danny Soriano (Brother of Gen. Soriano) / 1-37
Quirino / 300,000 / D. Soriano / 1-37
Benguet / 1.2 M / No Name / 1-37
Baguio / 1.5 M / No Name / 1-37
REGION III
Aurora / None
Nueva Ecija / 7.5 M / Bong Pineda / (Gov. P12 M) / STL (1-40)
Bulacan / 8.0 M / Bong Pineda / (Gov. P6 M) / STL (1-40)
Tarlac / 3.5 M / No Name / (Gov. No sum) / STL (1-38)
Pampanga / 9.0 M / Bong Pineda / (Gov. P9 M) 1-37 / STL (1-40)
Zambales / 1.5 M / Col. Delos Santos / (Gov. P2 M) 1-37
Olongapo / 1.1 M / Aging Lisan / (Gov. P1 M) STL
Angeles City / 1.5 M / Bong Pineda / (Mayor P1.5 M)
Bataan / 3.0 M / Bong Pineda / (Gov. P3 M) / STL
NCR
Manila / 3 M / Bookies / Ronald Lim / 1-37
Quezon City / 2 M / Tony Santos / 1-37 / 1 M / Togo
Caloocan City / 1 M / Tony Santos / 1-37
Navotas & Malabon / 2 M / Aging Lisan / 1-37
Valenzuela / 1 M / Tony Santos / 1-37
Pasay & Makati / 1 M / Elmer Nepomuceno / 1-37
REGION IV-A
Cavite 1.6 M / Atong Ang (Double A) Virtual 2 / 1-37
Laguna / 14.0 M / Don Ramon/Boyet Aransa/Haruta / STL
Batangas / 8.5 M / Sanchez / Cezar Reyes / STL
Quezon / 7.5 M / Eddie Gonzales / STL
Rizal / 1.5 M / Elmer Nepomuceno / Tony Santos / 1-37
REGION IV-B
Mindoro Oriental / 1.5 M / Atong Ang (Double A) Virtual 2
Mindoro Occidental / 1.4 M Don Ramon/Santiago / STL
Marinduque / No Name / Swertres
Romblon / No Name / Swertres
Palawan / No Name / Swertres
REGION V
Camarines Norte / 1.7 M / Atong Ang (Double A) Virtual 2
Camarines Sur / 4.0 M / Bong Pineda / 1-37
Albay / 4.2 M / Atong Ang (Double A) / Virtual 2 / 1-37
Sorsogon / 2.0 M / Bong Pineda / 1-37
Masbate / No Name / Swertres
Catanduanes / No Name / Swertres
Apparently, our government cannot enforce the law that bans jueteng. Various Philippine presidents have come and gone, but illegal jueteng remains. If so, should we not settle for regulating jueteng, instead of abolishing it on paper, without any realistic hope of success on the ground? Then we could impose high fees and earn huge taxes for our cash-strapped government instead of incurring more foreign debts.
Some presidents have established STL as an alternative to jueteng. If the new PCSO management is street-smart, it can easily confirm that only 10 to 15 percent of STL earnings are declared. The rest of the earnings are actually siphoned off to jueteng. Thus, STL is a failure.
Allow me now to quote lawyer’s Latin from Petronius: Quid faciat leges, ubi sola pecunia regnat? What may laws do where only money reigns? What power has the law, where only money speaks? And in the same vein, allow me also to quote Horace: Quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt? Without morals, what can futile law do?
Let me end this privilege speech the way I began it: with reference to Einstein. Just before he died in 1955, he wrote: “What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity, truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.”
Our mandate on jueteng is clear: enforce the law, or legalize jueteng. Now please excuse me. I am compelled by ill health to go home to Quezon City. But I am also prepared to change direction, if the jueteng operators I have named proceed to send me to my Maker.
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