INQUIRER FILE PHOTO. ZAMBOANGA CITY, ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR — Cigarette smuggling is getting to be a lucrative business in this city as the police and the navy report seizing from January to November more than P400 million...
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Smuggling
P1M worth of smuggled cigarettes seized in Jolo
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized more than P1 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in an operation in Jolo, Sulu. BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz said the 30 cases of smuggled cigarettes were intercepted in Zone 3, Barangay Tulay by agents of the BOC –...
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Navy seizes P52-M smuggled cigarettes in Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Philippine Navy seized smuggled cigarettes valued at P52 million in this city on Thursday, Nov. 24. Naval Forces Western Mindanao (Navforwem) personnel intercepted five ‘’jungkong’’ or small wooden motorized boats loaded with 1,511 boxes of...
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Police, Customs nab 14, seize P2.5-M smuggled cigarettes
A JOINT team of policemen and Bureau of Customs (BOC) personnel have arrested 14 people and seized some P2.5 million worth of assorted smuggled cigarettes in an anti-smuggling operation Wednesday, November 23, 2022, off Zamboanga City. Police Colonel Alexander...
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11 arrested, P1-M smuggled cigarettes seized
LAWMEN have arrested 11 people and seized P1 million worth of contrabands in an anti-smuggling operation in the province of Maguindanao, the police reported Thursday, November 3, 2022. Police Colonel Richard Verceles, operations chief of the Area Police...
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𝐏𝐂𝐆 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐏𝐇𝐏 𝟐.𝟖𝟓𝐌 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐌𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐍
On 24 September 2022, Coast Guard Station Basilan through Coast Guard Sub-Station Hadji Muhtamad apprehended a motorized banca loaded with assorted smuggled cigarettes with an estimated total street value of PhP 2,850,000.00 at the vicinity waters off Lakit Island,...
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P2.3-M smuggled cigarettes seized in Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Authorities have arrested three suspects and seized some PHP2.3 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in separate anti-smuggling operations in this southern port city, police officials said Wednesday. Colonel Alexander Lorenzo, Zamboanga City Police...
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Thailand Maritime News, 2022 May – August Summary
Thai freighter detained for allegedly, sugar smuggling Thai freighter BANGPAKAEW was detained in Subic Bay, Philippines, for allegedly, smuggling in Philippines some 7,000 tons of bagged sugar, said nation’s Bureau of Customs BOC. The ship arrived at Subic Bay on Aug...
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Thai freighter detained for allegedly, sugar smuggling
Thai freighter BANGPAKAEW was detained in Subic Bay, Philippines, for allegedly, smuggling in Philippines some 7,000 tons of bagged sugar, said nation’s Bureau of Customs BOC. The ship arrived at Subic Bay on Aug 17 from Bangkok, cargo documents were checked and found...
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PCG SEIZES 2.1 MILLION PESOS WORTH OF SMUGGLED CIGARETTES
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) District Central Visayas has seized a wing van truck loaded with smuggled cigarettes onboard MV Lite Ferry 17 from Dapitan Port in Zamboanga del Norte to Mainit Port in Oslob, Cebu on 01 August 2022....
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Smuggled gasoline seized off Tawi-Tawi
POLICEMEN have intercepted and seized some P64,200 worth of smuggled gasoline on Tuesday, August 2, off Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi. Police Colonel Richard Verceles, operations chief of Area Police Command-Western Mindanao, that the policemen aboard patrol gunboat were...
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P17M worth of ‘cocaine’ found in waters off Cagayan
TUGUEGARAO CITY — Two fishermen recovered three bricks of alleged cocaine worth P17 million from the waters off Abulug and Ballesteros towns in Cagayan province on Monday (March 21) afternoon, authorities said. Brig. Gen. Steve Ludan, Cagayan Valley regional police...
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