BACOLOD CITY – The Bacolod City Police Office said smuggled cigarettes valued at P21 million were voluntarily surrendered in a police checkpoint on Tuesday, April 14, in Purok Herbabuena, Circumferential Road, Barangay Villamonte here. According to the Police Regional Office–Negros Island...
BACOLOD CITY – The Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region recovered smuggled cigarettes valued at P25 million in Barangay To-oy, Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental on Monday, April 13. A suspected smuggler, Geo, 43, of Barangay Masulog, Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, was arrested. Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Western Mindanao Naval Command recovered more than P64-million worth of smuggled cigarettes during routine maritime patrol operations in Sulu. Authorities stopped the vessel, MB Princess Zia, on Wednesday, April 8, 1.2 nautical miles southeast of Marungas Island, for an...
DAVAO CITY – The Bureau of Customs has seized 182,821 reams of smuggled cigarettes valued at P156 million in Mindanao. Customs Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno, with the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, the Police Regional Office-11, and the Davao City Police Office, inspected...
ILIGAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region seized smuggled cigarettes valued at P50 million on Maundy Thursday in Sitio Turugan, Barangay Dinaig Proper, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte. A total of 1,170 cases of illicit cigarettes were left behind by...
Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno on Friday led the inspection of a shipment containing P235-million worth of smuggled cigarettes from the United Arab Emirates bound for the Port of Batangas. In a statement, the BOC chief reported that the shipment containing 637 master cases of...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has intercepted a shipment of undeclared cigarettes worth more than P230 million during a recent operation conducted at the Port of Batangas. In a statement on Saturday, the BOC said a physical examination of the container on March 5 led to the discovery of 637 cases of...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Western Mindanao Naval Command (WMNC) seized an estimated P114-million worth of smuggled cigarettes within its area of operation. Rear Admiral Constancio Arturo Reyes Jr., commander of WMNC, said personnel aboard BRP-Florencio Iñigo (PC-393) intercepted two vessels for...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A vessel of Cambodian registry manned by crew members from Myanmar was held last Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Sultan Kudarat by the Naval Command Western Mindanao for allegedly transporting more than 3,000 master cases of smuggled cigarettes. In an exclusive interview, Lt. Commander...
Authorities are intensifying their crackdown on tobacco smuggling as prosecutors move forward with multiple cases under the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Law (RA 12022), signaling a tougher national stance against illicit cigarette operations that officials say are costing the government...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 monitored no high-ranking government official involved in cigarette smuggling in Eastern Visayas. But Police Col. Hector Enage, chief of the PRO-8 Regional Operations Division, confirmed that the region has been a transshipment point for smuggled...
BUTUAN CITY – Police intercepted a truck loaded with smuggled cigarettes worth P8 million in Sultan Naga Dimaporo town, Lanao del Norte province on Thursday, Nov. 6. The 29-year-old driver failed to present a Certificate of Registration and was issued a Temporary Operator’s Permit (TOP). The...
