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(Eagle News)–The Bureau of Customs has seized P42 million worth of what authorities said was smuggled rice following a raid in a warehouse in Zamboanga City. The raid, the Presidential Communications Office said, was conducted by BoC-Port of Zamboanga in Barangay San Jose Gusu following a tip. An inventory of the items in the warehouse yielded 42180 sacks of rice. According to the PCO, the owner’s representative submitted import documents purportedly covering the sacks of […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Customs has seized over half a million pesos worth of smuggled rice from Myanmar. The bureau said the 495 bags of white rice were intercepted on Aug. 10 from the port of Cebu. This was made possible following a tip that a shipment that arrived from Kaohsiung, Taiwan on July 23 was loaded with imported rice. The Inward Foreign Manifest had declared the shipment contained personal effects of a […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Coast Guard confiscated a shipment containing over 7,000 sacks of smuggled rice in Zamboanga City. Lt. Commander Noriel Ramos, Zamboanga Coast Guard Station commander said the smuggled rice may have an estimated market value of Php 11 million. The rice shipment was intercepted around 11 p.m. on Tuesday, December 11 after an informant revealed that sacks of rice were being unloaded in the area. The official said the contraband was […]
Zamboanga City district collector, Customs Police district commander under preventive suspension (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered an “immediate, thorough” investigation into the disappearance of over 23,000 sacks of smuggled rice. “He was visibly upset..Nagalit talaga si Presidente. It’s incredible. How can you lose sacks of rice?” Roque said in a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 4. According to Roque, based on a report from Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapena, as of 10 a.m., Zamboanga […]
(Eagle News) — Aabot sa 22,000 kaban ng smuggled na bigas ang nasabat ng mga tauhan ng Philippine Coast Guard sa dalawang sasakyan sa karagatang sakop ng Tamuk Island, Basilan. Ang nasabing barko ay namataan habang nagsasagawa ng maritime patrol sa lugar. Agad inispeksyon ng coastguard ang barko at natagpuan ang sampung libong bag ng smuggled na bigas nang walang kaukulang dokumento. Ang mga nasabing sasakyang pandagat ay ang M/L “Overseas” at M/L “Nadeepa”. Agad […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Umapela ang isang mambabatas kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na maglabas ng Executive Order na nag-aatas na i-donate ang nasabat na smuggled rice at payagan na ibenta ito sa mas mababang presyo, Ayon kay Agri Rep. Orestes Salon, dahil nasa mababang lebel na ang suplay ng murang bigas ng NFA ay maaaring maglabas ng kautusan ang Pangulo na payagan ang ahensya na ibenta ang nasabat na bigas sa mas mababang presyo. […]
(Eagle News) — Animnapu’t pitong (67) milyong pisong halaga ng puslit na bigas mula vietnam ang nasabat ng Naval Forces Western Mindanao sa Olutanga Island, Zamboanga Sibugay. Sinabi ni Rear Admiral Rene Medina, Commander ng Naval Forces Western Mindanao, naharang ng Naval Task Force 61 ang isang Mongolian-flagged cargo ship na MV Diamond 8 na nag-diskarga ng mahigit dalawampu’t pitong libong (27,000) sako ng bigas o nasa kabuuang 1,359 metrikong tonelada. Inakala aniya ng BRP […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) –Around 20 containers of smuggled rice worth of P40 million pesos were seized on Friday (December 16) by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at the Manila International Container Port (MICP). According to the BOC Commissioner, Nicanor Faeldon, the sacks were first declared to contain “glutinous supplies”, but upon checking they found out that it held rice reportedly from Hong Kong which was the place of origin as declared in the documents. “I […]
The Bureau of Customs is going to conduct an auction for confiscated smuggled rice worth Php 300 million.
