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(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has seized P53 million worth of misdeclared agricultural products at the Port of Manila. In a statement, the BOC said the products, which were housed in 16 containers, arrived at Port 3 on Aug. 8, and had been declared by consignee Shinerise Trading Service as fishballs with a total declared duties and taxes of P2,542,882.00. Upon inspection, though, Customs examiners found the shipment contained an estimated P20.080 million worth of […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte revealed that he would be firing 64 officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) for their involvement in corruption, daring them to resign first before he makes his move. “I was reading the dossier from all intelligence sources, if I can dismiss them, I will be dismissing something like 64 Customs employees,” he said. “It’s a simple case, you resign or I file charges,” Duterte said shortly […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs on Friday, May 31, clarified what it auctioned off in July was the tapioca starch alone and not the illegal drugs. The BOC made the clarification after Senator Panfilo Lacson questioned its sale of what he said was a shipment discovered in a Malabon warehouse on March 5 and which contained P1 billion worth of shabu concealed in 114 bags of aluminum pallets from Cambodia. Lacson noted a public auction […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday, May 29, said the tara system in the Bureau of Customs remains unchecked even as he vouched for the integrity of Customs chief Rey Guerrero. In a privilege speech, Lacson said among the Customs departments that continue to receive “grease money” were the intelligence unit (P3000 per container), the Imports Assessments Service (P2000 to P3000 per container) and the enforcement unit (P1000 per container). He said the Office of […]
Customs accreditation of consignee, broker revoked (Eagle News)–Charges will be filed against those behind the P1.8 billion worth of shabu intercepted by Customs authorities. In a statement, Manila International Container Port District Collector Atty. Erastus Sandino B. Austria said he has also revoked the customs accreditation of the consignee, Wealth Lotus Empire Corporation, behind the shipment from Vietnam intercepted on Friday, March 22. He said the accreditation of customs broker Jane A. Castillo has also […]
(Eagle News)—The Bureau of Customs will conduct its own probe of the blaze that hit its Port of Manila building in Manila on Friday, Feb. 22. “We have our Enforcement and Security Service securing the affected offices, and our Intelligence Group and the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service have been tasked to identify the cause of the flame,” Customs Commissioner Rey Guerrero said in a statement on Saturday, Feb. 24. According to Guerrero, the situation […]
(Eagle News)—Over P50 million worth of property was lost in two fires in Manila on Friday night. The first fire took place in the Bureau of Customs in Manila around 9 p.m. The blaze started on the third floor of the P-O-M building which housed records, and quickly spread to other structures including the Port of Manila. “Yung building po na yun, isang isolated na building.. Pag stockpile yan, yan po ay madaling masunog at […]
(Eagle News) — A Department of Justice panel of prosecutors will hold an ocular inspection of the magnetic lifters that allegedly contained shabu, and which were found last year. Assistant State Prosecutor Mary Jane Sytat on Thursday, Feb. 21, set the inspection of the two magnetic lifters discovered in the Manila International Container Port and the four magnetic lifters in GMA, Cavite to March 4 in the Bureau of Customs, and March 7 in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has seized guns and ammunition that had been misdeclared from a Pasay warehouse. In a statement on Friday, Feb. 15, the BoC said the eight pistols, 20 ammunition magazines and 226 bullets were discovered in two packages with the “Solar Panel” and “Tool Cart” labels. The discovery was made following the profiling of Customs officers and an X-ray examination of the outbound shipments that came from Taiwan, the BoC said. The BoC […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Customs have agreed to create a joint special task force against the entry of illegal drugs. The partnership was formalized in a memorandum of agreement signed between PDEA chief Aaron Aquino and Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero on Thursday, Jan. 31. According to Aquino, under the agreement, PDEA operatives would be allowed to conduct random inspections on the entry of controlled precursors and essential […]
(Eagle News) — The National Bureau of Investigation on Thursday, Jan. 24, filed charges against former Customs chief Isidro Lapeña and several others in connection with the shabu said to have been found in magnetic lifters last year. Lapeña, who is now the head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, was slapped with administrative charges–for alleged dereliction of duty and grave misconduct—and criminal charges for graft over the illegal drugs that were allegedly […]
(Eagle News)—The garbage which was illegally shipped to Misamis Oriental last year will be sent back to South Korea next week. “We expect the 51 garbage-filled containers stored at MICT (Mindanao International Container Terminal) to be home-bound by January 9 provided that all regulatory requirements are readily available,” MICT port collector John Simon said. The 1200 tons of trash arrived at the MICT port on Oct. 21. The BOC intercepted the “misdeclared shipment” in November […]
