The BOC filed smuggling charges today against the General Manager and a major stockholder of a small, under-capitalized company that was able to import nearly P8.5 billion worth of petroleum products between March 2009 and September this year.
Twenty containers of wheat flour misdeclared as General Merchandise items, Two units of Isuzu ten-wheeler trucks, two containers of frozen mackerel and a container of amplifiers misdeclared as footwear are among the illegally imported commodities valued at 50 million pesos that the Bureau of Customs confiscated today.
Customs Commissioner Lito Alvarez announced today the seizure of 32 drums of toluene, a controlled substance that narcotics chemists could have used to produce two (2) tons of shabu with an estimated street value of P1.5 billion.
The issues raised by Shell in the newspaper advertisement are not the issues involved in the criminal case filed by the Bureau of Customs before the Department of Justice. Shell is muddling the issues by making it appear that the criminal case is the subject matter of the CTA case which are totally different from the DOJ case.
The Bureau of Customs, with help from the Philippine Airlines, has finally been able to break the impasse on the pestering overtime pay mess at the country’s international airports.
The Bureau of Customs filed oil smuggling charges today against the officers of an oil importing company that defrauded the government of about P 700 million through an elaborate scheme of under-declaration and document falsification.
