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(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that six officers of the Bureau of Customs assigned at the Port of Subic have been relieved of their posts and “recalled” to the BOC main office as the probe on alleged sugar smuggling continues. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles announced this on Wednesday, August 24, saying that the six BOC officers have been transferred to the office of the acting Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon while awaiting the result of […]
Authorities suspect P22-M worth of sugar supplies were being hoarded to manipulate sugar prices (Eagle News) – The Bureau of Customs found and seized some 44,000 sacks of imported sugar worth some P22 million in separate “raids” in warehouses in Pampanga and Bulacan on Thursday, August 18, 2022, suspected of being hoarded by traders to create a supply shortage. “The raids were in accordance with the marching orders of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs collected over P497 million in additional revenues from its post-clearance audit in the third quarter of this year. According to the bureau, the P497,044,083.84 represents collections from July to September 2021 upon issuance of 112 Audit Notice Letters (ANL). So far, the bureau is expecting an additional P11.473 billion, after 57 demand letters became final and executory for the failure of the audited importers to contest the same. […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs generated P49.334 billion in revenues in May, surpassing its target for the month by 6.6 percent. In a statement, the bureau said the increase of P3.058 billion was despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. Based on the preliminary report from the BOC Financial Service, the P49.334B collection includes additional revenues from the Tax Expenditure Fund (TEF) amounting to P50.16 million and Post Clearance Audit Group (PCAG) collection […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities on Monday, May 17, seized P3.11 million worth of ketamine and arrested the claimant of the illegal drugs which had been concealed in coffee sachets, the Bureau of Customs said. According to the bureau, Kristopher Segumbang was nabbed in a joint controlled delivery operation in Caloocan after claiming the 622 grams of illegal party drugs on behalf of the consignee, a certain Nick Dimagiba. The parcel arrived last May 10 from […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has “intercepted” some 20,000 capsules of Ivermectin which were “not declared” in a shipment brought into the country at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. (NAIA). The undeclared Ivermectin capsules as well as other “undeclared regulated drugs” were in a shipment imported by Finstad Inc., from New Delhi, India. They were declared as “Food Supplements, Multivitamins and Multi-Mineral Capsules”, the BOC said on Thursday, May 6. According to […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has condemned over 2,000 packs of smuggled and fake cigarettes recently. In a statement, the bureau said apart from the 2305 packs seized by personnel at the port of Manila on Oct. 19, condemned were machines used for counterfeiting cigarettes. All condemned items were worth P21 million and were destroyed at a rendering facility in Porac, Pampanga. According to the bureau, the condemnation was made possible by the combined efforts […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the newly-designated chief of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) former National Bureau of Investigation director Dante Gierran to find out who were the Philhealth officials who should be charged in court and put to jail, including their accomplices outside the agency. Duterte also directed Gierran to reshuffle the heads and officials of the different Philhealth regional offices. “Si Gierran, he is a lawyer and an […]
(Eagle News)–The Customs bureau said it has seized P186.9 million worth of misdeclared cigarettes from the Manila port. In a statement, the bureau said based on documents, the seven containers contained towels, school bags, bed sheets, non-woven bags and fabrics but were found to contain 6249 cigarette cases instead. The shipment had been declared as coming from China. According to the bureau, the haul marks the biggest seizure of cigarettes by the Manila International Container […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has seized P3.1 million worth of high-grade marijuana, the BOC said on Monday, June 22. In a statement, the BOC said its personnel assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport discovered the kush in a parcel sent via the Central Mail Exchange Center. Authorities have intensified their profiling of parcels and cargoes arriving via air in view of what they said was the concealment of illegal drugs in […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs on Saturday, June 20, destroyed 11.2 tons of medicines, food and other chemicals that have no Food and Drug Administration approval. The Customs bureau said its Ninoy Aquino International Airport personnel destroyed the items that were “unsafe imported goods not fit for human consumption,” the fifth condemnation for 2020. “The condemnation aims to protect the public and decongest the warehouses with overstaying shipments,” the bureau said. “Bureau of Customs NAIA […]
(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has seized around P9 million worth of illegal drugs from a warehouse in Pasay City. According to the BOC, the 5025 ecstasy tablets were found by Customs personnel assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in a DHL warehouse, and were concealed in a paper shredder shipped from the United Kingdom and consigned to an individual in Pasig. Customs personnel made the discovery while conducting a documents check and physical […]
