The operation saw 190 Chinese, two Taiwanese and 62 Filipinos held.
A police raid on Aug 22 shut down a Chinese-run scam farm being operated out of an office tower in Manila.
The police and other authorities raided the office building late on Oct 3 to find staff with hundreds of phones, computers, and pre-registered international and local SIM cards, the Presidential Anti-Organised Crime Commission said. The company used to have an internet gaming licence but subsequently told regulators it “ceased operations”, Mr Gilberto Cruz, executive director of the anti-crime commission, said.
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