Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday, January 6, urged the government to go after smugglers of agricultural commodities and protect local farmers from unwarranted competition. Gatchalian lamented that authorities have been confiscating smuggled products left and right but no “big fish” has been...
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) have intercepted around P17 million worth of onions in an apparent agricultural smuggling attempt after they were found to be hidden in between sacks of used clothings, popularly known as "ukay-ukay", inside three container vans from China. BOC Commissioner...
The House Committee on Ways and Means has vowed to pin down the alleged Chinese mafia behind the agricultural smuggling in the Philippines as soon as Congress resume sessions this year, 2023. Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda, chairman of the said committee, said the panel has “Class...
Amid the continuous price increase of onion that already hit P720 per kilo this week, intelligence and investigation agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized another multi-million peso worth of agricultural products that include sacks of onions believed to have been smuggled into the country....
Senator Imee Marcos has asked the Department of Agriculture (DA) to tap a neglected source of funding to increase the supply of onions that could be sold at P170 per kilo in Kadiwa outlets and rolling stores before the New Year. This, after Marcos called "pointless" the DA’s plan to raise the...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Thursday, December 29 said he supports calls for a Senate investigation into the alarming skyrocketing prices of local onions in light of the alleged smuggling of the crop from other countries. Sen. Imee Marcos has filed Senate Resolution No. 350 calling for a...
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) seized almost P215,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes in a buy-bust operation in Opol town of Misamis Oriental. CIDG director Police Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said the operation that was carried out on Monday, Dec, 26, also resulted in...
Agents of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) confiscated more than P171 million worth of onions and other agricultural products in more than two weeks of operations as part of the efforts to address...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday, December 23 called on the government to hasten the investigations on agricultural smuggling and make those who would be found guilty to be held accountable. Go said the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) should conduct an...
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...
