Electronic cigarettes or vape worth P75 million in deficiency taxes were seized during a warehouse raid in San Pablo City, Laguna, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) reported Thursday, March 14. BIR Commissioner Romeo D. Lumagui Jr. said that a raid led by the Philippine National Police Criminal...
Agents of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) inspect one of the Malabon warehouses that yielded illegal imported e-cigarettes or vapes from China. A combined worth of P3.72 billion smuggled electric cigarettes or vapes were discovered...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth P398 million were seized by the Philippine Navy and other concerned agencies from a cargo vessel manned by Indonesians in the sea of Tawi-Tawi on February 1. Philippine Navy personnel were initially alerted by the National Coast Watch Center about...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard District Eastern Visayas Sub-Station Allen intercepted at least 700 reams of undocumented cigarettes at the Santa Clara Port in Jubasan, Allen, Northern Samar on Tuesday, February 20. SEVEN-HUNDRED reams of undocumented cigarettes were seized by the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs destroyed smuggled cigarettes worth P323 million in warehouse here on Thursday, November 30. ZAMBOANGA City Mayor John Dalipe and Bureau of Customs Port of Zamboanga District Collector Arthur Sevilla during the destruction of smuggled cigarettes in Zamboanga...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth more than P8 million were seized in this city on Monday, November 6. The Zamboanga 2nd Mobile Force Company and the Bureau of Customs were conducting seaborne patrol in the sea in Barangay Maasin when they spotted a motorized boat or “jungkong”...
Over P24.6 million worth of smuggled cigarettes were seized in the city of Zamboanga, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported Friday, Oct. 27. During a joint operation, members of the BOC Port of Zamboanga and other units intercepted a motorized wooden boat bearing the marks “MB UTOH MAT MAT”...
Police authorities arrested a “big-time” syndicate dealer supplying counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes in the CALABARZON areas Monday afternoon, Sept. 11, in Barangay Poblacion, Padre Garcia, Batangas and confiscated P800,000 worth of illicit items. Authorities seize counterfeit and...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Police intercepted 790 reams of imported fake cigarettes worth P711,000 in Mauswagon, Placer, Surigao del Norte, on Thursday, May 18. Six individuals transporting the contraband onboard a 10-wheel wing van and a motor-tricycle were apprehended. SMUGGLED fake...
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Some P7.6-million worth of smuggled cigarettes were seized from a boat intercepted in the vicinity of Sta. Cruz Island in Zamboanga City at dawn Tuesday, Feb. 7. Zamboanga Second Mobile Force Company and Bureau of Customs personnel were conducting seaborne patrol when they...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- The police operatives confiscated a total of P750,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes during an intel-driven police operation at Zone 3, Barangay Bulua in this city on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Authorities place a total of P750,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes inside a jeep after they...
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) seized more than P260,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes following the arrest of two people allegedly selling them in Palawan. Nabbed were Jayrahz Tuibeo Velasco, 33; and, Diosdado Cruses Lagbas, 51. They were collared after CIDG...
