Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez ordered today the seizure of a huge volume of smuggled sugar which were found by customs intelligence operatives in the same industrial compound in Bulacan where some 26,000 bags of smuggled onions from China and India were confiscated only a week ago.
The long slumbering Port of San Fernando in La Union, utilized mainly by rice, coal and fertilizer shippers, will soon become a hub for the fast, safe, cost-efficient and convenient movement of containerized cargoes in Region I.
Thousands of counterfeit goods were destroyed this morning as the Bureau of Customs conducted one of its biggest condemnations of confiscated smuggled products this early in the year.
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.
