CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police seized smuggled cigarettes worth P2.2 million and arrested a suspected smuggler in a buy-bust operation on Tuesday afternoon, October 15, in Barangay Biga, Calatagan, Batangas. The Police Regional Office 4-A identified the suspect as alias Alwin, 48, a resident...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P1.7 million were found floating on the coastline of Barangay Kayok, Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte on Thursday, August 29. Police retrieved the contraband after receiving a report from a concerned citizen. The abandoned tobacco products were sent...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P20 million were seized in Sulu on Sunday, August 18. PHILIPPINE Navy personnel intercepted smuggled cigarettes valued at P20.4 million in the sea of Sulu. (Navforwem) The BRP Laurence Narag (PG 907) under Naval Task Force 61 of the Naval...
Smuggled cigarettes with a total value of P17.7 million were seized by the Bureau of Customs in the Port of Davao. During an inspection, the BOC, along with Task Force Davao, yielded 15,150 reams of cigarettes, 35 sacks of assorted shoes, and one unit of truck. The BOC-Davao is set to file the...
Smuggled cigarettes with a total worth of P2.3 million were intercepted in Iligan City checpoint, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported. The BOC said that the agents from District 10 led an operation that yielded 2,899 reams of undocumented Fort and Cannon Methol cigarettes on May 16 at a checkpoint...
Electronic cigarettes or vape worth P75 million in deficiency taxes were seized during a warehouse raid in San Pablo City, Laguna, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) reported Thursday, March 14. BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. said that a raid led by the Philippine National Police Criminal...
Agents of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) inspect one of the Malabon warehouses that yielded illegal imported e-cigarettes or vapes from China. A combined worth of P3.72 billion smuggled electric cigarettes or vapes were discovered...
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...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard District Eastern Visayas Sub-Station Allen intercepted at least 700 reams of undocumented cigarettes at the Santa Clara Port in Jubasan, Allen, Northern Samar on Tuesday, February 20. SEVEN-HUNDRED reams of undocumented cigarettes were seized by the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs destroyed smuggled cigarettes worth P323 million in warehouse here on Thursday, November 30. ZAMBOANGA City Mayor John Dalipe and Bureau of Customs Port of Zamboanga District Collector Arthur Sevilla during the destruction of smuggled cigarettes in Zamboanga...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth more than P8 million were seized in this city on Monday, November 6. The Zamboanga 2nd Mobile Force Company and the Bureau of Customs were conducting seaborne patrol in the sea in Barangay Maasin when they spotted a motorized boat or “jungkong”...
Over P24.6 million worth of smuggled cigarettes were seized in the city of Zamboanga, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported Friday, Oct. 27. During a joint operation, members of the BOC Port of Zamboanga and other units intercepted a motorized wooden boat bearing the marks “MB UTOH MAT MAT”...
