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.
The Bureau of Customs did not meet its September cash collection goal of P23.358 B but the agency is surprisingly on target to surpass last year’s total cash collection of P198.2 B as early as mid-November this year.
Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez ordered today the seizure of 32 containers of white rice worth P20 million which were unloaded December 5 at the Cebu International Container Port.
Four container vans loaded with premium white rice but misdeclared as fishmeal by its importer have been impounded on orders of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez.
Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez presented today to Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, Senator Francis Pangilinan, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Alyansa ng Mga Magsasaka executive director Ernesto Ordonez what remains of 8×40 footer containers of onions that were seized by customs operatives September 3 this year.
