Rape case leads to discovery of Koreans’ gambling racket

ANGELES CITY, Philippines – Responding to a housemaid’s rape complaint, police stumbled upon illegal online gambling operations run by Koreans in a subdivision here last weekend.

Senior Superintendent Eden Ugale, city police chief, said three Koreans, identified as Victor Yu, 42; Seo Yong, 39; and Kim Tae Geum, 37, were arrested during the police operation at Timog Park Subdivision in Barangay Pampang.

Ugale said his men were responding to the rape complaint of the Koreans’ 31-year-old housemaid when they chanced upon the foreigners’ online gambling operations.

Ugale said the woman, along with barangay officials and policemen from Station 5, went to the Koreans’ residence so she could identify her supposed attacker.

Upon seeing the policemen though, the Koreans locked themselves up in one of the rooms.

An employee of the Koreans, however, was persuaded to turn over a key to the locked room which, when opened, turned out to be full of computers and other gadgets used for online gambling.

Ugale said operatives of the Anti-Cybercrime Group of the local police were called in, and they described the place as a “boiler room” for various cybercrime operations, including online gambling.