Intelligence and investigation agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) have impounded two container vans loaded with onions at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) Port in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. The operation conducted by the BOC's Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS), in...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities seized P832,000 worth of suspected smuggled petroleum and arrested three persons during a seaborne patrol operation in the sea of Barangay Mauboh, Patikul, Sulu on Tuesday, Dec. 20. The Sulu Maritime Police Station and Patikul Municipal Police Station received a tip...
Anti-smuggling advocates lauded the approval on third and final reading by the House of Representatives of a bill seeking to declare as economic sabotage the smuggling of cigarettes and other tobacco products. “The approval of House Bill 3917 is a welcome development in this time that the country...
Another measure filed by Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos has been approved on third and final reading by his colleagues in the House of Representatives. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Given final approval...
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Monday, December 12, said non-bailable charges of economic sabotage should be filed against agricultural smugglers who are growing in numbers in the Philippines. Ejercito said the full force of the law should be applied against them to put their illegal...
Benguet Lone District Rep. Eric Yap on Sunday, Dec. 11, urged the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to pursue a legal case against so-called agricultural smugglers who illegally import agricultural products into country that directly impacts local farmers. Benguet Rep. Eric Yap (Photo from Rep. Yap via...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) must send a strong message to traders involved in the big-time smuggling of agricultural goods. Benguet lone district Rep. Eric Go Yap (Facebook) Benguet lone district Rep. Eric Yap said the BOC can do so by filing air-tight, non-bailable cases against such smugglers,...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, December 11, sought an assessment of the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) modernization program amid the influx of smuggled products in the country. Recently, BOC agents have seized more than P63-million worth of frozen goods from Hong Kong and China. Also last week,...
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized more than P25 million worth of cigarettes believed to have been smuggled into the country via the porous borders of Mindanao. The contraband, according to the Bureau of Customs-Port of Zamboanga (BOC-POZ) Water Patrol Division (WPD), was intercepted off...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) foiled the attempt of suspected human traffickers to allegedly smuggle a family of four Arab nationals to the United Kingdom (UK). BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the mother and her three children were...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized more than P20 million worth of carrots and onions at Port of Subic in its continuing crackdown against smuggled agricultural products. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the intercepted agricultural products arrived in the country on Dec. 1 and were...
A measure seeking to declare as "economic sabotage" the smuggling of tobacco products into the country has been approved on second reading in the House of Representatives. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos (left) and PBA Party-list Rep. Migs Nograles Through a simple voice vote (ayes vs....
