BUTUAN CITY – Police seized smuggled cigarettes in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Quirino, Madrid, Surigao del Sur, on Friday, June 14. POLICE recover smuggled cigarettes in Barangay Quirino, Madrid, Surigao del Sur, on Friday, June 14. (Mike U. Crismundo) Police Regional Office-13 Director...
Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered all police commanders to launch a crackdown against counterfeit and smuggling of cigarettes in a bid to plug the annual P25.5 billion losses of the government from the illicit trade. In a statement, Marbil said the...
Zambales 1st district Rep. Jefferson "Jay" Khonghun (PPAB) House Assistant Majority Leader and Zambales 1st district Rep. Jefferson "Jay" Khonghun has expressed support for President Marcos’ directive to strengthen efforts against the smuggling of...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 45-year-old businessman for allegedly transporting four boxes of smuggled cigarettes worth P100,000 in a checkpoint in Barangay 1, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Monday night, May 6. POLICE intercepted allegedly smuggled cigarettes worth P100,000 in a...
Thousands of tobacco farmers are urging lawmakers to pass the economic sabotage bill before President Marcos’ State of the Nation Address (SONA) to protect their livelihoods from rampant agricultural smuggling. In a statement on Thursday, May 2, more than 50,000 members of the Philippine Tobacco...
BUTUAN CITY – Authorities seized more than 8,000 reams of smuggled cigarettes worth P2,968,350 in Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur on Wednesday, April 24. Police Regional Office 13-Regional Public Information Office chief Police Major Jennifer S. Ometer said two suspected smugglers – Mal, 60,...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth P21 million were seized and 16 suspected smugglers were arrested in Glan, Sarangani on Black Saturday. Police Brig. Gen. Percival Placer, Police Regional Office-12 chief, said lawmen found the smuggled cigarettes unloaded from a fishing...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P64 million were seized in the vicinity of Manuk Mangkaw Island, Simunul, Tawi-Tawi, on Saturday, March 9. BOXES of undocumented cigarettes valued at P64 million were seized in sea of Simunul, Tawi-Tawi by the Philippine Navy on March 9....
After nearly five years of implementation, has the government's fuel marking program successfully halted or significantly reduced oil smuggling in the Philippines? Rather than providing a direct answer, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has chosen to rely on official data to illustrate the program's...
CEBU CITY – Two drug groups could be behind the smuggling of huge amounts of shabu that were seized here recently, police said. Police Lt. Col. Gerard Ace Pelare said these two drug groups were identified during the custodial debriefing on arrested drug personalities. Pelare, spokesperson of...
Sen. Cynthia A. Villar renewed her call against agricultural smuggling to protect the country's local hog producers, pushing for Congress to finish the bicameral conference on the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Bill. Villar made the statement as she recently attended the National Federation of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth P398 million were seized by the Philippine Navy and other concerned agencies from a cargo vessel manned by Indonesians in the sea of Tawi-Tawi on February 1. Philippine Navy personnel were initially alerted by the National Coast Watch Center about...
