NAGA CITY – Extensive and centralized operations of jueteng in Camarines Sur managed by at least 11 maintainers or table managers are yielding more than P2.8M daily in bet collections, according to an intelligence report reaching Bicol Mail.

The matrix-form document showed that 11 percent of the daily take goes as “goodwill” money to certain personalities tagged as RD and PD of the Philippine National Police who apportion certain amount to “friendly” mediamen.

The same dossier described the operations of the illegal numbers game as endemic in the province. It also showed that except for the 2nd district, all the remaining three districts of the province, namely, the Railroad (1st), Partido (3rd), and Rinconada (4th) districts are presently experiencing full swing operations of the illegal numbers game.

Jueteng operations in Camarines Sur’s 2nd district are hampered by Mayor Jesse M. Robredo’s campaign against the illegal gambling, the same source said.

PNP Provincial Director Supt. Romeo P. Mapalo maintained that Camarines Sur is jueteng-free. Instead of jueteng correadores, policemen under his supervision have allegedly apprehended kabos who were collecting bets for EZ2, Mapalo said.

The report also contained information that jueteng operators even hold jueteng draws near the workstations of local government personnel and officials.

In Minalabac, Camarines Sur, jueteng draws are held in a vacant lot only a stone’s throw away from the town’s police station, a claim quickly refuted by P/INS. Benjamin España, the town’s police chief.

The document pointed to a table manager with initials “Y.V.” for Minalabac-Milaor-San Fernando area that chalks up a daily collection of P160,000.

Daily bets coming from the towns of Ocampo and Pili amounting to P150,000, according to the same document, are drawn in a sprawling lot in Barangay Maycatmon, Milaor, at the back of the Provincial Capitol with a certain “B.B.” as maintainer.

In Bato, Camarines Sur, a retired policeman is said to be calling the shots in jueteng operations in Baao-Nabua-Bato area whose jueteng banks registers a daily take of more than P300,000.

More about jueteng updates:
In Partido, jueteng operations covering Lagonoy-San Jose-Goa area rake in P180,000 daily with a certain J.C. in the frontline as table manager. Conde manages the jueteng draws 3 times a day in a place called Bahai near the boundary of Goa and San Jose towns. Tigaon and Sagñay bets that reach more than P120,000 per day are drawn in an undisclosed ricefield in Tigaon by still unidentified table manager.

In Rinconada area, the source also linked a barangay official with initials “I.T.” of Tapayas, Balatan to jueteng operations in Bula-Balatan area which amass P180,000 everyday. Jueteng draws are held in his barangay.

A certain “B.A.” was implicated also as the maintainer of illegal gambling in Buhi-Iriga area that pulls off more or less P300,000 from bettors. Draws are held in Barangay Sagrada, Iriga City.

Combined daily collections from Naga City, Magarao, Canaman, Camaligan, and Gainza placed at P500,000 are drawn in Sitio Tribu, Haring, Canaman. The amount is obviously higher than any other jueteng stations as it is beefed up by the collections gathered by the group of a certain “E.O.” which is separately drawn in Barangay Siembre, Bombon, Camarines Sur.

In a statement volunteered by a PNP intelligence operative to Bicol Mail revealed that Tinambac (P90,000) and Tamban (P180,000) have separate places of draws but are both under the supervision of a certain “C.M.”, reportedly a son of a known lawyer.

In the Railroad district of Pasacao and Pamplona which recorded a P150,000 daily bet collection, jueteng draws are managed by a certain “A.M.” and held at the coastal town of Pasacao. “A.M.” is also allegedly in charged of jueteng draws in Libmanan town which registers a daily take of P190,000 and in Sipocot-Lupi area which draws a daily collection of P180,000. The Ragay-Del Gallego area which recorded a P130,000 daily take, it is reportedly managed by a man identified by his initials “O.L.”