A Cebu City judge convicted a Chinese national of two criminal cases involving the distribution and sale of counterfeit cigarettes. The accused, Sunxu Zhou, was found guilty for violating Sections 155 and 155.1 (Trademark Infringement) of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines or...
photo: CIDG Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) seized more than P3.6 million worth of smuggled...
By LIZA JOCSON ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P1.2 million were seized in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi on Saturday, July 13. SMUGGLED cigarettes worth P1.2-million were seized in Tawi-Tawi province. (PNP) Police received information about a motorized boat or jungkong suspected of...
By GLAZYL MASCULINO BACOLOD CITY – Charges for violating Republic Act 8424 or the Tax Reform Act of 1997 were filed on Thursday, July 11, against four persons, including a Malaysian, for allegedly transporting P3.8-million worth of smuggled cigarettes in Ilog, Negros Occidental on Tuesday,...
BACOLOD CITY – Four suspected smugglers were arrested and several boxes of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)-Southern Negros Occidental in Ilog, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, July 9. A MOTORBANCA loaded with 150 boxes of smuggled cigarettes from...
BUTUAN CITY – Police seized smuggled cigarettes in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Quirino, Madrid, Surigao del Sur, on Friday, June 14. POLICE recover smuggled cigarettes in Barangay Quirino, Madrid, Surigao del Sur, on Friday, June 14. (Mike U. Crismundo) Police Regional Office-13 Director...
Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered all police commanders to launch a crackdown against counterfeit and smuggling of cigarettes in a bid to plug the annual P25.5 billion losses of the government from the illicit trade. In a statement, Marbil said the...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested a 45-year-old businessman for allegedly transporting four boxes of smuggled cigarettes worth P100,000 in a checkpoint in Barangay 1, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Monday night, May 6. POLICE intercepted allegedly smuggled cigarettes worth P100,000 in a...
BUTUAN CITY – Authorities seized more than 8,000 reams of smuggled cigarettes worth P2,968,350 in Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur on Wednesday, April 24. Police Regional Office 13-Regional Public Information Office chief Police Major Jennifer S. Ometer said two suspected smugglers – Mal, 60,...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Smuggled cigarettes worth P21 million were seized and 16 suspected smugglers were arrested in Glan, Sarangani on Black Saturday. Police Brig. Gen. Percival Placer, Police Regional Office-12 chief, said lawmen found the smuggled cigarettes unloaded from a fishing...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Smuggled cigarettes valued at P64 million were seized in the vicinity of Manuk Mangkaw Island, Simunul, Tawi-Tawi, on Saturday, March 9. BOXES of undocumented cigarettes valued at P64 million were seized in sea of Simunul, Tawi-Tawi by the Philippine Navy on March 9....
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...
