Senators sought stricter sanctions, including the re-imposition of the death death penalty, against persons who have a hand in the multi-billion-peso smuggling operations at the country’s air and sea ports. Their proposed iron-fist penalties followed a three-hour public hearing by the Senate...
Despite President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s order to import an additional 150,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar, the price of this commodity is unlikely to drop to its previous low level unless more sugar importers are allowed to penetrate the market. Sen. Risa Hontiveros pointed this...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Zamboanga City Police Station 6 led by Police Col. Sonny Boy Perez intercepted an abandoned van containing P525,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes on Saturday, May 13, while conducting hot pursuit operations against a suspect in a shooting incident here. Police Col....
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard arrested two Indonesians for transporting smuggled cigarettes onboard a motorized banca in Maasin, Sarangani on Saturday, May 6. Capt. Mitch Ursabia, Coast Guard District Southern Mindanao spokesperson, said Fadli Machamud and Fajar Antari...
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has intercepted an unidentified motor banca loaded with P600,000 worth of allegedly smuggled cigarettes from Indonesia. (Photo: PCG) The PCG Station Western Sarangani flagged the boat while sailing off Brgy. Taliac in Maasim, Sarangani Province last Saturday, May 6....
Senator Cynthia A. Villar is pushing for the creation of special courts to try exclusively smuggling cases worth billions of pesos that has prejudiced farmers and the economy. Villar said regional trial courts (RTCs) have not been effective. In today’s hybrid public hearing of the ...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs on Friday, April 28, destroyed in a rented warehouse here some P1.4-billion worth of smuggled cigarettes, so far the biggest bulk of smuggled items to be condemned from the Port of Zamboanga. SMUGGLED cigarettes worth P1.4-billion seized during Bureau of...
Local coconut oil refiners have asked President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. to review the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) policy on granting tax and duty-free privilege to importers of palm oil purportedly for animal feeds compounding and implement import licensing rules to curb rampant cases of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Navy intercepted a motor launch carrying hundreds of drums of smuggled fuel products in the sea of Sulu on Saturday, April 1. THE Navy seized more than P9-million worth of undocumented fuel products on board the M/L Anne Nur in the sea of Sulu. (NFWM photo)...
Agents of the intelligence and investigation service of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at the Manila International Container Port (MIC) seized around P120 million worth of poultry and seafood products believed to have been smuggled into the country in a series of raids on warehouses in Navota City....
Saying that the government is "losing billions", Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (PBA) Party-list Rep. Margarita "Migs" Nograles underscored on Saturday morning, March 18 the urgent need to pass the proposed law against tobacco smuggling. The House of Representatives has already approved on third and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police seized smuggled cigarettes valued at P2.5 million in a parked vehicle here on Thursday, March 16. POLICE haul boxes of smuggled cigarettes found inside a vehicle parked on Don Toribio St. in Barangay Tetuan, Zamboanga City on Thursday, March 16. (Zamboanga City LGU...
