The Bureau of Customs raided two warehouses in Las Piñas and Cavite that were suspected of containing smuggled rice. Customs reported that the warehouses, located in Pulang Lupa, Las Piñas, and Bacoor, Cavite, contained rice products from Vietnam, Thailand, and China, with an estimated value of...
Authorities confiscate boxes of allegedly smuggled cigarettes worth P1..84 million from Indonesian watercraft KM Pejuang Devisa 2 off Sarangani, Davao Occidental on Sept. 14, 2023. (Photo by Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao) The Philippine Navy (PN) said on Saturday, Sept. 16, that it has intercepted...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has confiscated over 42,000 sacks of rice in Zamboanga City. In a statement, Customs said the bureau forfeited 42,180 sacks of Alas Jasmine Fragrant rice, valued at P42 million, that were discovered inside a warehouse in Brgy. San Jose Gusu, Zamboanga City. The...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 confiscated smuggled cigarettes worth P80,000 loaded on a motorcycle with sidecar in Barangay Quirino, Madrid, Surigao del Sur, on Sunday, September 10. Police arrested the motorcycle driver after he failed to present documents...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth nearly P3 million were intercepted in the sea of Tumalutap Island here on Monday night, September 11. These contrabands onboard a wooden watercraft marked FB Ommayah 3 were intercepted by members of the Zamboanga Second Mobile Group. The vessel had...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Thousands of liters of smuggled fuel on board a boat docked in a vessel docking facility here were seized by authorities on Saturday, September 9. The Coast Guard District Southwestern Mindanao, Bureau of Customs, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) found...
Law enforcement authorities should prioritize all well-known personalities linked to agricultural smuggling once the measure recommending hoarding, profiteering, and cartel as economic sabotage is signed into law. Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito pointed this out on Thursday,...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police seized smuggled cigarettes worth P10.5 million and arrested suspected smugglers in a buy-bust operation in Balayan, Batangas, on August 30. Police Regional Office 4-A director Police Brig. Gen. Carlito Gaces identified the suspects as Benigno Alvarez,...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (left) and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Rep.Lee's office, Speaker's office) The Palace-ordered price cap on rice--the Filipino staple food--could end up backfiring on consumers. Thus, said AGRI...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Authorities have intensified anti-smuggling operations following the seizure of 1,700 reams of smuggled cigarettes loaded in three mini-van cargo trucks estimated to be worth P19 million in a military checkpoint in Barangay Bawing, this city, last week. Col. Ruben...
Around P160 million worth of smuggled cigarettes were seized during a joint operation of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Navy off the waters of Tandubas, Tawi-Tawi on Wednesday, Aug. 23. BOC Commissioner Bien Rubio said the operation stemmed from the report they received about a...
BACOLOD CITY – Two men were arrested for transporting smuggled cigarettes worth P200,000 in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. Police identified the suspects as Omair Dirindigun, 25, and Sacaroding Sarip, 21, residents of Barangay 5, San Carlos City. Police Major Ryan Villasario, deputy...
