Filipinos investigates the claim that many chicken enthusiasts lost three years later killed and thrown into a poolent volcano.
At least 34 men – accused of healing cockfighting matches – lost without trace in the capital Manila and adjacent provinces.
Six suspects were measured by kidnapping and last Thursday, one of them claimed a TV interview that victims were worn in death, surrounding an active volcano.
Search – where people betting on roosters fighting the deaths with bladed spurs tied with their feet – a miniquo-dollar industry in the Philippines.
Men are accused of being involved in living chickens, raised during Covid Pandemic when in-person matches were forced to close. But the industry is more likely to make more useful, producing about 620 million pesos ($ 10.8m; £ 8m) a government month.
A 2022 Senate investigation also reveals that daily bets of online cockfights run up to 3 billion pesos ($ 52.4m; £ 38.8.8.8.8m).
But then the men disappeared, the living fights – learned locally as “e-subled” – that President Rodrigo Duterte forbid them. The traditional cockfighting is still legal in the Philippines.
On Thursday, Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla told reporters that the authorities would look at the people who searched people under the lake.
“We just don’t let it go and let it alone. We should be responsible for finding the truth especially in cases like this,” he said.
Remulla added that the authorities will look at new development, increases that they look at finding many nons.
Gambling is strong in most Catholic philippines even if Church leaders are against it in all its forms.
Some online gambling operations are also linked to criminal surgery.
In the past year, Filipino authorities do not know Many scam centers and human trafficking rings hides behind online casinos serving Chinese Chinese clients.
It led President Ferdinand Marcos to outlaw the online casino known as pogos or Philippine sallshore gaming operations.
