The Bureau of Customs (BOC) – Port of Davao recently seized 499 master cases consisting of 24,950 reams of illicit cigarettes with an estimated value of Php 19 million and a used motorized banca along the territorial waters of Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur.

The Bureau of Customs Port of Zamboanga (BOC-POZ) on March 21 intercepted one unit of motorized wooden watercraft “Jungkong” loaded with 141 master cases of undocumented cigarettes estimated to be valued at PHP 4.9 million.

As part of the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) strengthened anti-illegal drug campaign, the BOC – Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), and NAIA Inter-Agency Drug Interdiction Task Group (NAIA-IADITG) arrested a claimant after discovering methamphetamine hydrochloride, commonly known as “shabu,” hidden inside a parcel on March 23, 2023, at the Central Mail Exchange Center, Pasay City.

The Bureau of Customs Port of Clark (BOC Clark) turned over, on March 22, 2023, various seized marijuana by-products with an estimated value of Php 120,185.44 to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region III for proper disposition.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC), through the Bureau’s Action Team Against Smugglers (BATAS), filed three criminal complaints before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against alleged violators of Customs laws.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) Port of Cagayan de Oro (CDO) seized one (1) container of counterfeit goods declared as “Garments (Trousers)” from Bangladesh with an appraised value of PhP 48.9 million at the Sub-Port of Mindanao Container Terminal, Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental on February 24.

The Bureau of Customs Ninoy Aquino International Airport (BOC-NAIA), the Enforcement and Security Service (ESS), and the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) arrested a Korean passenger carrying undeclared foreign currency amounting to USD 167,300 or about Php 9.196 million on March 17, 2023, at NAIA Terminal 1.

Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Bienvenido Y. Rubio, with BOC Intelligence Group Deputy Commissioner Juvymax Uy, inspected a shipment from Guinea, Africa said to contain spare parts on March 20, 2023, at the Pair Cargo Warehouse in Pasay City.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) Port of Subic, through the BOC Intelligence Group (IG) headed by Deputy Commissioner Juvymax R. Uy and Enforcement Group (EG) headed by Deputy Commissioner Teddy Sandy S. Raval, on March 15 apprehended thirty (30) 20-footer containers of misdeclared sugar from Hong Kong with an estimated value of PhP 86 million.

Commissioner Bienvenido Y. Rubio gathered the stakeholders of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at the Stakeholders’ Night event to recognize their contributions to fulfilling the Bureau’s mandates and present his plans and programs for the agency.