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...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) conducted on Tuesday, Jan. 24, simultaneous raids of businesses that are allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. BIR Commissioner Romeo Lumagui, Jr. and Deputy for Operations Maridur Rosario spearheaded the operation in Metro Manila with surprise inspections of...
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has raided perpetrators of illicit cigarette trade across the country, placing all regional enforcers on alert while their operations were ongoing on 378 stores in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. BIR Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. led a raid on Wednesday, Jan. 25,...
Police arrested seven lawbreakers and seized suspected shabu and contraband cigarettes worth a total of P24,000 during anti-criminality operations in Nueva Ecija on Saturday, Jan. 21. CONTRABAND cigarettes seized from three men in Nueva Ecija. (Photo via Liezle Inigo) Col. Richard Caballero, acting...
Authorities escalated further what they dubbed as the “last quarter storm” trade enforcements against sale of illegal cigarettes in Central Luzon provinces, zeroing mostly on public market wholesale stores. Since late October, combined forces of BIR Revenue Region 4 and PNP-CIDG Region 3,...
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...
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) confiscated almost P200,000 worth of smuggled cigarettes following the arrest of three people in an entrapment operation in Iligan City. Nabbed were Joharei Ambaco Mangutara, 22; Abdul Jalil Ambaco Mangutara, 29; and Mansawi Lumna...
CAVITE – Authorities collared a man for selling counterfeit cigarettes at the parking lot of a mall in Bacoor City on Wednesday, Dec. 14. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Cavite Provincial Field Unit conducted an entrapment operation against the suspect, identified as Aaron L....
ILIGAN CITY -- The Bureau of Customs (BOC) destroyed P395 million worth of smuggled cigarettes during the simultaneous public condemnation activity held at the Pavilion Gym, Provincial Government Complex, Barangay Dao, Pagadian City, and at a customs-rented warehouse in Barangay Baliwasan on...
At least half of all cigarettes sold in Mindanao were smuggled, depriving the government of much needed revenues to fund basic services, the anti-smuggling advocacy group FIGHT Illicit Trade Movement (FIGHT IT) said. Jesus Arranza, FIGHT IT chairman said cigarette smuggling in Mindanao has...
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...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is set to destroy on Tuesday, Dec. 13, more than P395 million worth of cigarettes that were confiscated in a series of anti-smuggling operations in the western part of Mindanao. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said it will be the second condemnation schedule of...
