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Charges pressed against owners of Apan Jewellers in money laundering cases Customs officials during a raid at the Mouchak Market outlet of Apan Jewellers. Several outlets of the jewellery brand in Dhaka were raided after the owners son was accused in the Banani rape case. Star file photo Star Digital Report Star Digital Report Customs Intelligence has pressed charges against owners of Apan Jewellers Gulzar Ahmed and Azad Ahmed in connection with two m...

Karachi: PMSA, Customs recover hashish worth Rs 810 million, arrest five   Published On Karachi: PMSA, Customs recover hashish worth Rs 810 million, arrest five KARACHI (Dunya News) - Pakistan Maritime Security Agency and Pakistan Customs in a joint operation on a tip-off foiled an attempt to smuggle hashish in the open sea. During the operation, 5 suspects were arrested and 2 tons of hashish was recovered. According to the DG Operations of Pakistan Maritime Security Agency, the accused were ...

Published March 2, 2021, 8:40 PM Bureau of Customs (BOC) agents seized late last month some 2,000 master cases of smuggled cigarettes worth P60 million, the agency revealed in a statement Tuesday, March 2. The Feb.26 operation, which led to the confiscation of the million-peso contraband, was carried out by the Manila International Container Port’s (MICP) Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS).  The shipments came from China and were consigned to two entities: Green Nature All...

Photo by BOC.  BATAAN, Feb. 25 -- The Bureau of Customs Port of Limay and the composite team from Enforcement and Security Service (ESS), Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS), Philippine National Police (PNP), and Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), intercepted smuggled cigarettes in master cases bearing the "Mighty" and "Two Moon" cigarette brands and Premium Vietnam Rice loaded onto LCT Yellow River last February 24, 2021 in Orion, Bataan. Based on reports, said importation was un...

(Photo via BOC) A total of P9 million worth of smuggled Chinese goods such as cigarettes, medicines, food items, and other illegally imported products were seized from the location.  “We will need to do inventory, but most of the goods are Lianhua Qingwen which is used as medicine for COVID-19,” said Alvin Enciso, chief of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) at the Manila International Container Port. Enciso’s team swooped down at a warehouse/ storage facility located a...

(PHOTO VIA BOC/ MANILA BULLETIN) Boxes of cigarettes branded Marvels and Two Moon were uncovered from a shipment that arrived at the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental on Feb. 14. The contents were declared as “furniture” and consigned to MRC 418 Direct Import Export Corp. (PHOTO VIA BOC/ MANILA BULLETIN) The bureau said it earlier received a derogatory information about the shipment. This led to the issuance of a pre-lodgement control order by District C...

Published February 19, 2021, 3:16 PM This nearly became a literal case of snakes on a plane. Bureau of Customs (BOC)-Port of NAIA agents intercepted around two dozen live reptiles intended for export to Taiwan on Thursday, Feb. 18 at a DHL warehouse. BOC – NAIA / MANILA BULLETIN The package, which held two venomous spitting cobras, eight pit vipers, and 15 sailfin lizard was declared to contain “souvenir items” by a certain “Adrian Lim” from Pasig City. It was consigned to a certain �...

Counterfeit toys and various smuggled goods were recently discovered in a warehouse in Guiguinto, Bulacan, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Thursday, Feb. 18.

Cigarettes worth Tk 5 crore seized in Ctg 178 Department CIID seized cigarettes worth Tk five crore in Chattogram port. Customs sources said that the consignment arrived at Chattogram port in the name of Fujian Export Industries Limited, Ishwardi Export Processing Zone (EPZ), Pabna, with the announcement of ‘Polyester PET Strap’ as a bond facility goods. Investigation Department, told journalists that the foreign made cigarettes were found in the consignment imported in the name of raw mate...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The composite team dubbed Customs Border Protection was established by the Port of Iloilo to prevent all forms of smuggling and other customs fraud, Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo B. Guerrero said.  It is composed of 18 personnel from various divisions of the port, namely the Enforcement and Security Service, Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service, Port Operations Division, and Assessment Division.  The team covers the Collection District VI, Por...