WE have long taken the position that no government agency should serve as both a regulator of a particular industry and an operator in that industry. There are several existing agencies to which this obvious conflict of interest applies, but none is perhaps more contentious than the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor), which is both the regulator of the gambling industry and the operator of several dozen casinos and a substantial online gaming business.

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