CEBU CITY – The raid on a cigarette manufacturing facility in Lapu-Lapu City was a big blow to the proliferation of counterfeit tobacco products in the country, the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) said. “The operation disrupted a key node of a transnational illicit tobacco...
The Philippine Navy (PN) said Sunday, April 12, that it has seized an estimated P64 million worth of alleged smuggled cigarettes off Sulu during one of its recent maritime patrol operations in the restive southern waters. Personnel of the Western Mindanao Naval Command’s (WMNC) Naval Task Force...
The Eastern Police District (EPD) seized smuggled cigarettes worth P464,820 during a series of operations in local stores in San Juan and Marikina Cities on Friday, April 10. The Marikina City Police Station’s Intelligence Section, together with the District Intelligence Division (DID), District...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs-Port of Zamboanga destroyed more than 5,000 cases of smuggled cigarettes worth P266 million in a waste management facility here on Tuesday, April 7. The condemned items consisted of 5,069 master cases, 2,620 reams, and 32 packs of assorted smuggled...
Cigarette smugglers would have hit a jackpot way better than what a lotto biggest prize could offer. But the P2 billion market price of smuggled and illegally-manufactured cigarettes suddenly disappeared after the Philippine National Police (PNP) started busting their distribution networks. PNP...
COTABATO CITY – Acting on a tip, police recovered several unattended boxes of imported cigarettes, estimated to be worth P12.8 million, on the coastline of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Thursday. Police Col. Caezar Cabuhat, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said in a statement on Friday that...
Five persons were arrested and nearly P2 million worth of fake cigarettes and smuggled goods were seized by the authorities during a joint operation on Thursday, March 26, in Barangay San Jose, Plaridel, Bulacan. The Plaridel police, the Provincial Intelligence Bureau in Bulacan, and Philip Morris...
GUMACA, Quezon – The municipal government is strictly implementing ordinances against smoking and vaping in public places here, Mayor Webster Letargo said. Letargo ordered police and local authorities to enforce smoke-free ordinances and Republic Act No. 11900 (Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine...
COTABATO CITY – Police officers in Matanog, Maguindanao del Norte, on Tuesday intercepted an attempt to smuggle P6.4-million worth of imported cigarettes hidden by two men inside a cement mixer truck. Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous...
Teenagers as young as 13 to 15 years old have already tried vape products in different flavors such as cookies and cream, and even pistachio. Health experts disclosed this during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography on the various pending measures that sought to either ban or...
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...
More than P70-million worth of smuggled tobacco products were seized during a police operation in a warehouse in San Simon, Pampanga, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Tuesday. The warehouse in Barangay San Pablo Libutad was reported by a netizen a few hours after Interior and Local...
