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The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has intercepted an unidentified motor banca loaded with P600,000 worth of allegedly smuggled cigarettes from Indonesia. (Photo: PCG) The PCG Station Western Sarangani flagged the boat while sailing off Brgy. Taliac in Maasim, Sarangani Province last Saturday, May 6....

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Bureau of Customs on Friday, April 28, destroyed in a rented warehouse here some P1.4-billion worth of smuggled cigarettes, so far the biggest bulk of smuggled items to be condemned from the Port of Zamboanga. SMUGGLED cigarettes worth P1.4-billion seized during Bureau of...

CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Police seized smuggled cigarettes worth P80,000 in the municipality of Libjo in the island province of Dinagat on Thursday, March 16. The Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in the Caraga region arrested two suspected...

Illicit cigarette trade in the country worsened amid the pandemic, allowing smugglers to amass huge profits and depriving the government of much needed tax revenues. At the recent Anti-Illicit Trade Conference “Plugging Revenue Leakage by Curbing Illicit Tobacco Trade,” authorities reported...