Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Ariel F. Nepomuceno has ordered officials of the country ’s second largest revenue agency to intensify the crackdown on all forms of smuggling, with particular focus on the illegal trade in oil and agricultural products. “You are hereby directed to further...
CAMP OLIVAS, Pampanga – Authorities seized approximately P22-million worth of illegally traded petroleum products and arrested eight suspects during a joint anti-smuggling operation in Barangay San Benito, Dinalupihan, Bataan, early Thursday. In a statement, the Police Regional Office (PRO) 3...
A police officer assigned to Camp Crame, Quezon City is facing criminal and administrative charges after he was arrested in a Pagadian City checkpoint on Sunday, July 12, for alleged smuggling. Investigation said that authorities established the checkpoint in Barangay Tiguma after receiving a tip...
BUTUAN CITY – Police seized smuggled cigarettes valued at P20.8 million in a checkpoint in Magsaysay, Misamis Oriental on Saturday, July 11. “The hot-pursuit operation near the border in the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Misamis Oriental also yielded three suspects,” Regional Public...
Senate Committee on Energy Chairperson Senator Erwin Tulfo wants answers from Bureau of Customs (BOC) officials regarding the alleged smuggling of oil products into the country. As such, the neophyte senator plans to summon agency representatives to appear before the Senate and address the issue,...
Nearly ₱1 billion worth of illegal cigarettes concealed in 25 container vans have been intercepted by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Mandaue City, Cebu on Thursday, July 2, marking the country’s second-largest tax collection agency’s major seizures under its intensified campaign against...
Combined forces from various government agencies intercepted an estimated P1.7 billion worth of suspected smuggled cigarettes in a joint operation in Tondo, Manila, it was announced on Tuesday, June 23. Twenty-three containers out of 24 tracked were seized by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG),...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Juanito Victor "Jonvic" Remulla on Thursday, June 18, vowed that authorities will continue running after illegal tobacco syndicates and bring those behind the trade before the courts. Remulla made the assurance as the government...
More than P70 million worth of cigarettes, believed to have been smuggled into the country through the southern backdoor, were confiscated following raids on three makeshift warehouses in a coastal area in Picong, Lanado Del Sur. Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National...
Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan has renewed calls for stronger safeguards for local onion farmers noting how most of them are affected by the rampant importation. Pangilinan made the call after joining officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA), Bureau of Customs (BOC), and Bureau of...
Eight individuals were arrested while an estimated P22.5 million worth of smuggled cigarettes was confiscated during an anti-smuggling operation conducted by the Philippine National Police in Carmen, Davao del Norte on Thursday, June 4. Personnel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group...
Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered a thorough investigation to identify and arrest the financiers and syndicates behind the P13.25 million worth of smuggled cigarettes seized in Lanao del Sur. Nartatez said he already tasked the Police...
