BACOLOD CITY – Two men were arrested for transporting smuggled cigarettes worth P200,000 in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. Police identified the suspects as Omair Dirindigun, 25, and Sacaroding Sarip, 21, residents of Barangay 5, San Carlos City. Police Major Ryan Villasario, deputy...
BACOLOD CITY – The Bureau of Internal Revenue seized 252 cases of smuggled cigarettes worth P4 million in Barangay 5, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, July 13....
The Philippine Navy (PN) has intercepted a “jungkung” vessel or fishing boat (FB) which carried P13.8 million worth of allegedly smuggled cigarettes off the Island Garden City of Samal, Davao del Norte over the weekend. (Photo: *Naval Forces Eastern Mindanao, Philippine Navy) * Commodore...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Some P7.1-million worth of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted in Zamboanga City on Saturday, July 8. SOME P7.1-million worth of smuggled cigarettes on their way to Pagadian from Sulu were intercepted in Zamboanga City on Saturday, July 8. (2nd ZCMFC photo) The smuggled...
A Zamboanga City police officer was arrested during an entrapment operation and anti-smuggling operation on Tuesday, July 4, in Molave, Zamboanga del Sur. Police Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 Public Information Officer, identified the suspect as Police Corporal Abdul Michael...
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard arrested two Indonesians for transporting smuggled cigarettes onboard a motorized banca in Maasin, Sarangani on Saturday, May 6. Capt. Mitch Ursabia, Coast Guard District Southern Mindanao spokesperson, said Fadli Machamud and Fajar Antari...
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...
