Jack Lam intermediary’s $1m bribe caught on video

The fallout from gaming operator Jack Lam’s alleged bribery of Philippine officials shows no sign of abating.

Monday brought word that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has launched a probe of two Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials who allegedly received bribes from Lam. The bribes were intended to obtain the release of the 1,316 Chinese workers arrested last month for illegally working at an online gambling operation at Lam’s Fontana Casino in the Clark Freeport.

The bribe was allegedly made through former police superintendent Wally Sombrero (pictured), the intermediary that Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II publicly accused of delivering Lam’s request for Aguirre to become the ‘godfather’ looking out for Lam’s local gaming operations.

On Monday, the Department of Justice said it had video evidence of Sombrero delivering five paper bags, each reportedly containing P10m (US $201k), to two BI assistant commissioners – Michael Robles and Al Argosino – at a restaurant in a casino mall in Parañaque City on November 26, two days after the Chinese workers’ arrests.