(Eagle News) — Customs Chief Nicanor Faeldon was a no-show in Wednesday’s Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on the P6.4-billion drug shipment that entered the country, saying he was confined in the hospital due to hypertension. In a letter addressed to Senator Richard Gordon, Senate blue ribbon committee chair, Faeldon said that he had been diagnosed with “non ST elevation myocardial infection acute coronary syndrome; hypertension urgency hypertension stage II” and was confined at the […]
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BOC snags P10M worth of smuggled sugar
(Eagle News)- The Bureau of Customs Intelligence Group (BOC-IG) seized nine 40 footer container vans full of smuggled white sugar at the Port of Manila after an inspection on Monday. The confiscated goods, which were declared as steel tube scaffolding, have an estimated value of P10 million that is yet to be fully paid by Lucky Sapphire Trading, the BOC told in a statement. The container vans arrived at the Port Of Manila on August […]





