Ex-DPWH engineers allegedly cashed billions from casinos

Five former engineers from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Bulacan, known as the 'BGC Boys' (Bulacan Group of Contractors), allegedly cashed in billions of pesos from casinos between 2023 and 2025.

Senator Panfilo Lacson revealed that these engineers, identified as Henry Alcantara, Brice Ericson Hernandez, Jaypee Mendoza, Arjay Domasig, and contractor Edrick San Diego, are suspected of involvement in a money laundering scheme.

Casino records show significant cash-to-chips and chips-to-cash transactions for Alcantara and Hernandez under assumed identities.

Henry Alcantara, using the alias Joseph Castro Villegas, reportedly had P1,428,170,000 in cash-to-chips transactions and P997,765,000 in chips-to-cash transactions.

Brice Hernandez, under the alias Marvin Santos De Guzman, allegedly had P659,910,000 in cash-to-chips transactions and P1,385,360,250 in chips-to-cash transactions.

Lacson highlighted these transactions as evidence of potentially "miraculous" winnings and questioned the plausibility of such sums, particularly noting Hernandez's reported winnings of P189,068,665 and Mendoza's P320,106,072 from a previous report.