Cong. Rodel Batocabe of AKO BICOL Partylist took charge in the investigation of the alleged failure of the small town lottery operations ran by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office in generating its projected income.
The said operations allegedly resulted to the loss of billions of pesos in revenues on the part of the national government. Furthermore, there were reports that some of the STL operations were used as fronts for jueteng and other illegal games in the country.
