CEBU CITY – The former chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) has criticized the decision of the House quad-committee to cite former PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva for contempt. RUIZ Yogi Filemon Ruiz on Facebook aired his frustration over the...
The Bureau of Customs, the government’s second largest tax collection agency, said it has exceeded its collection target for January due to heightened border controls and strengthened anti-smuggling program. In a statement, Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the bureau’s revenue haul...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda, chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, will reveal information from “top-level intelligence” about agricultural smuggling in the country “at the proper time". The House Committee on Ways and Means, chaired by Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has shipped 20 container vans loaded with balikbayan boxes that were abandoned in its two warehouse in Manila and Bulacan. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the balikbayan boxes were ordered transported to MIndanao and Visayas ports which will in turn take the...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has added six additional digitalization projects as it continues to implement the modernization program as measures to improve its services and to fight corruption. This was part of the discussion brought by BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz during the visit of Senators...
The Port of Davao of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched a United Nations-based program that seeks to address smuggling, particularly of illegal drugs. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said new Port Control Office, launched from Nov. 23-25 by the Port of Davao headed by District Collector...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has ordered all its employees to continue taking part in the aggressive reforestation project of the national government amid the threats of widespread flooding in the country. This, as the BOC said its personnel from the Central Office and 17 Collection Districts were...
Following the higher than expected revenue haul this year, Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said he was looking at P1 trillion as his aspirational target for the government’s second largest tax agency. On the sidelines of the the Manila Bulletin Hotseat interview on Tuesday, Nov. 22, Ruiz...
When Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Yogi Filemon L. Ruiz was informed last month that there were thousands of balikbayan boxes abandoned in their warehouses, he immediately found himself on a trip down memory lane when he was still struggling to fill up one. As an overseas Filipino worker...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has filed a total of 33 cases so far in the continuing efforts to run after smugglers of agricultural products in the country. BOC acting Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the cases were against 33 importers and 11 customs brokers whose names cropped up during the...
The Bureau of Customs, under the new administration, unveiled seven priority programs aimed at curbing smuggling, increasing revenue collections, eradicating corruption, and implementing the full digitization. Following the turnover ceremony on Monday, July 25, Acting Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has named Yogi Filemon Ruiz as the new Bureau of Customs (BOC) acting commissioner, Malacañang confirmed. Customs Enforcement and Security Services Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz takes his oath as the new Bureau of Customs Commissioner (BOC) before President...
