PCSO Orders Operation of Illegal STL Agent Stop in P'sinan

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

URDANETA CITY – The general manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) ordered various public and private executives to stop the spurious operation of a putative Small Town Lottery (STL) franchisee in Pangasinan.

Alexander F. Balutan, General Manager and Vice Chairman of PCSO, ordered PCSO Branch Manager – Pangasinan Editha Romero to stop Edward Aguilar to operate the Speed Game Inc. (SGI) once he headed.

The PCSO General Manager requested the assistance of Police Regional Office-1 Regional Director Chief Superintendent Romulo F. Sapitula and Pangasinan Provincial Director Senior Supt. Wilson Lopez to enforce his order against Aguilar who operated the Small Time Lottery (STL) as Authorized Agent Corporation (AAC) in the four cities and forty four towns’ province for several weeks already.

NEW BOSS – File photo taken last year when Speed Game, Incorporated (SGI) then President Edward Aguilar (second from left), then General Manager/Operation Manager Lito Millora (second from right) and SGI then Pangasinan  Provincial Administrator Anthony Ang-angco (extreme right) collaborated for the success of the Philippines Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO)-Small Time Lottery (STL)- Authorized Agent Corporation (AAC) to raise funds for the Philippines government. Lately, new SGI President David Diciano wrote PCSO General Manager Alexander Balutan last  February 8 that he designated Ang-angco to replace Millora as the top man of the AAC in Pangasinan. Diciano replaced Aguilar as the president of SGI while Lawyer  Gerald Gubatan (holding a microphone) is the new designated SGI Corporate Secretary  whose office is in Barangay San Vicente, Urdaneta City. Photo by Mortz C. Ortigoza

In his February 1, 2019 letter, Balutan told Aguilar that he had been operating Speed Game, Inc. without the proper authorization from the company’s stockholders and president David Diciano. Diciano told Balutan the lack of authority of Aguilar.

“You are therefore directed by this office to  immediately stop further operating Speedgame, Inc. activities in connection with our Small Town Lottery or STL”.

Balutan, a retired military general, exhorted the full cooperation of police general Sapitula to stop Mr. Aguilar’s illegal operation of the numbers game in Pangasinan at the expense of the majority stockholders of the corporation.

“Corollary to this, the Peryahan ng Bayan which was declared by PCSO as unauthorized and illegal is proliferating in the province of Pangasinan and is being used as front for the illegal numbers game. It will be deeply appreciated by the undersigned if your office will stamped out this unlawful and unsanctioned operation,” Balutan assailed also the Peryahan ng Bayan under Globaltech Mobile Online Corporation that was terminated by the PCSO in March 31, 2016.

The same letter from Balutan to Sapitula was copy furnished to Pangasinan Provincial Director Lopez.

A source, who asked for anonymity, said the National Bureau of Investigation has been raiding the illegal operations of this illegitimate STL and making arrest in several towns like Calasiao in Pangasinan.
He cited that Aguilar used to be the controlling owner of Speed Game but divested his stocks when he sold it to the present controlling owner.

“The documents for the transfer of ownership were only processed lately after Aguilar and the group of then Speed Game Inc.  General Manager and Operation Manager Lito Millora sacked Provincial Administrator Anthony Ang-angco and other officers,” he cited.

New SGI President David Diciano wrote February 8 this year Balutan that the new set of officers and board of directors of the corporation are as follows:

President: David D. Diciano; Treasurer: Reynaldo Celso A. Lanuzo; Corporate Secretary: Atty. Gerald Z. Gubatan. Board of Directors: 1. David B. Diciano; Theodore L. Dizon; Reynaldo Celso A. Lanuzo; Gerald Z. Gubatan, and; Edward J. Aguilar.

 Operation Manager: Anthony Ang-angco; Assistant Operations Manager: Crispin de Leon.

 District Coordinators for Pangasinan: Coordinator District 1 Kenneth Mano; 2. Coordinator District 2 Emerson Caragay; Coordinator District 3 Alfie Soriano; Coordinator District 4 Segundo Siapno; Coordinator District 5 Luvin Santos, and; Coordinator District 6 Alfredo Galvan.

SGI took the multi- million pesos a day numbers game in the province from Golden Go Rapid Gaming Corporation (GGRGC) in January 4 last year when the latter failed to remit the presumptive monthly retail receipt (PMRR).

As the winning bidder to win the franchise in Pangasinan, GGRGC remitted P7.5 million a day or P225 million a month of its PMRR.

The STL franchise in the province is one of the biggest AACs in the Philippines.

As the second highest bidder and successor of GGRGC, Speed Games Inc. remits P3.9 million a day or P117 million a month of its PMRR to the PCSO.

PCSO used that amount to fund its medical charity assistance work for the poor Filipinos.

“In 2016, P37.4 billion lang ang kinita ng ahensya. Nung maupo kami ni former PCSO Chairman Jose Jorge Corpuz, we ended 2017 with P53.9 billion sales to almost P54 billion. Ngayon kasama ni PCSO Chairman Anselmo Simeon Pinili at mga Board of Directors, tinapos natin ang 2018 ng may P63.55 billion na kita,” Balutan said.

 Last  year, STL earned P26 billion from roughly 100 STL’s  Authorized Agent Corporations all over the country.

SGI hit a snagged January this year when the group of  Aguilar and Millora sacked Ang-angco and associates.

“Some of the employees of Speedgame who joined Aguilar will be charged with the criminal law’s qualified theft,” the source cited.

He said PCSO Branch Manager Romero and other personnel will be charged too criminally and administratively for allegedly conspiring with the Aguilar group despite the order of Balutan to stop the operation of the number game under Aguilar.

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