Customs seizes rice, cars worth P12M at Davao port
By Tina G. SantosThe Bureau of Customs on Thursday seized P12 million worth of allegedly smuggled rice and cars of still undetermined value at the Port of Davao.
The Bureau of Customs on Thursday seized P12 million worth of allegedly smuggled rice and cars of still undetermined value at the Port of Davao.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized P25-million worth of fake medicines intended for the local market, Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said Wednesday.
The Department of Finance questioned the Court of Appeals’ decision stopping the Department of Justice from pursuing the smuggling case against the President and CEO of Phoenix Petroleum Philippines (Phoenix) as well as its customs broker, Jorlan Cabanes.
The Court of Appeals stopped the government from pursuing the more than P5-billion smuggling case against President and Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix Petroleum Philippines Inc., its broker and several others.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has approved the filing of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition against a businessman.
Prices of pork and poultry will not go up in spite of a new Department of Agriculture (DA) order that seeks to curb the smuggling of meat by fly-by-night operators, two associations of local meat producers said on Saturday.
An alert security guard foiled an attempt to smuggle P300,000 worth of suspected methampetamine into a Bohol-bound ferry at Cebu City’s Pier 3.
With nearly P2 billion worth of smuggled rice seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in the past eight months, Commissioner Rufino Biazon has directed the bureau’s Intelligence Group, as well as its revenue collection districts nationwide, to “increase the tempo of operations” against the illegal importation of the staple.
I wonder why large-scale smuggling is happening again in the port of Cebu. Years ago many mysterious things happened like the disappearance of a ship that was full of smuggled rice.
Agriculture sector leaders on Friday said the government needs to work harder after customs officials seized Vietnam rice shipments worth P1.2 billion that were slipped through a Cebu port this week.
Customs authorities announced Thursday they had uncovered P1.2 billion worth of smuggled rice declared as stone and granite slabs in 1,169 containers from Vietnam.
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday filed smuggling complaint with the Department of Justice (DOJ) against 11 against people including seven officers of a Cebu based Freight service company, two customs brokers, a port dispatcher and a warehouse for attempting to sneak into the country 10 twenty-footer container vans of smuggled sugar from Thailand worth P10 million at the Port of Cebu on November 22, 2012.
The Department of Justice ordered Thursday the filing of smuggling case against leading independent oil company Phoenix petroleum.
