DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P2.1 million were intercepted at the Barangay Sirawan checkpoint in Toril District here before dawn Sunday, July 17. DAVAO City police seized 4,250 reams of smuggled cigarettes worth P2.1 million at the Sirawan checkpoint in Toril District Sunday,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Some P3.8-million worth of smuggled cigarettes loaded inside a vehicle were intercepted by authorities in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur on Sunday, July 3. 109 boxes of smuggled cigarettes were seized from a utility vehicle in Dumalinao, Zamboanga del Sur last Sunday, July 3. (Photo...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) Zamboanga port led the destruction of some P110-million worth of smuggled cigarettes outside the Customs warehouse in Zamboanga City on Thursday, May 5. BOC Zamboanga port collector Sigmundfreud Segundo Barte Jr. said the contraband is composed of 3,110...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Some P14-million worth of smuggled cigarettes were seized in Barangay Culianan, Zamboanga City on Sunday, May 1. The smuggled cigarettes in 400 boxes were on board a ten wheeler truck which the military and police Intelligence operatives intercepted along the Maria Clara Lobregat...
China remains the largest source of smuggled goods entering the country, with counterfeit products comprising the most number of items illegally entered, the Bureau of Customs disclosed Monday, Nov. 21. Smuggled products n a briefing for the House Committee on Public Accounts chaired by Probinsyano...
Several allegedly smuggled luxury cars worth P500 million were discovered in two showrooms in Quezon City and Pampanga in separate operations conducted by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday, Oct. 21. Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN According to BOC, they received a report that the luxury cars...
Farmers claimed they have been competing against smuggled agricultural produce from China and other countries for many years now, although the surge in smuggled vegetables was only highlighted recently. “Whether these smuggled carrots entered the country via technical smuggling at ports or open...
Imported carrots and other agricultural goods amounting to P4.75 million deemed smuggled were uncovered in several market stalls in Tondo, Manila, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) bared late Thursday, Sept. 30. UNCOVERED! -- Imported carrots were among the vegetables amounting to P4.75 million that were...
Despite the rising smuggling activities in the country involving agricultural commodities, Agriculture Secretary William Dar admitted that the construction of what will be the Philippines' first ever first-border quarantine facility for farm products is facing further delays. DA Secretary William...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) urged the public o refrain from buying smuggled carrots while the investigation on its proliferation in the local markets is under way. (Photo via Pixabay) "The best thing we can do, meanwhile, is not to buy kasi hindi natin alam yung laman ng mga (because we...
Cheap imported carrots and other vegetables believed to be coming from China have started to cause problems among local farmers. This prompted Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) to urge the House of Representatives to probe the worsening smuggling of temperate or salad vegetables in the...
Hundreds of master cases of seized cigarettes worth P30 million have been destroyed in Cagayan de Oro City, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said on Thursday, Sept. 9. SHREDDED -- Close to 1,000 master cases of smuggled cigarettes amounting to P30 million were destroyed through shredding in Cagayan de...
