Deputy Customs Commissioner Gregorio Chavez, executive director of the Run-After-The-Smugglers (RATS) Group of the Bureau of Customs, brushed off the graft charge filed against him and two other Customs employees by a major importer of steel of products as “a desperate attempt to gain public sympathy in the light of reports that the smuggling case the BOC filed against the company would soon be resolved by the Department of Justice.”