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Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MANILA BULLETIN) The DENR cited Bacoor City Municipal Trial Court conviction of Joselito Laygan last Dec. 10. In February 2016, Laygan was caught in the act of selling cave resources without the necessary permits during an entrapment operation conducted by the Philippine Operations Group on Ivory and Illegal Wildlife (Task Force POGI), a composite team of wildlife enforcers from various agencies, including the Biodiversity Management Bureau, Na...

(PHOTO VIA BOC / MANILA BULLETIN) Imported alcoholic beverages were also found stored in the private warehouse in Pajo, Meycauayan during an inspection conducted by the Manila International Container Port’s (MICP) intelligence and enforcement teams. Armed with a letter of authority signed by Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero, the team from Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service, Enforcement and Security Service, Philippine Coast Guard, and the National Bureau of In...

COUNTERFEIT goods worth at least P15 million were seized by operatives of the Customs Investigation and Intelligence Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP) following a raid on a private warehouse in Meycauayan, Bulacan. In an after operations report to Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero, CIIS authorities said that found inside the warehouse were counterfeit bags and other food items and alcoholic beverages. Intelligence group chief Deputy Commissioner Rainiel Ramro said...

(MANILA BULLETIN) On December 15, 2020, the BOC entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Strategic Trade Management Office (STMO), Authority of the Freeport of Area Bataan (AFAB), Clark Development Corporation (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA). The partnership aims to establish an effective coordination and cooperation mechanism towards enhanced trade facilitation, optimize information sharing, boost the capability of front liner...

(BOC / MANILA BULLETIN) Instead of the declared contents, which are frozen jams, boxes of fresh carrots and broccoli were found in the shipment consigned to Zhenpin Consumer Goods Trading. It arrived at the Port of Subic last November 22 and was the subject of an alert on November 27, District Collector Maritess Martin said. The containers underwent inspection headed by the Customs bureau in collaboration with the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission, National Bureau of Investigation, and Su...

Published December 12, 2020, 12:39 PM Four-hundred thirty-two boxes of smuggled cigarettes valued at P13,188.411  were intercepted while in transit onboard a motorized banca in Cotabato City last Dec. 7, the Bureau of Customs (BoC) said Saturday. According to the Port of Davao, the shipment was intercepted while entering the country through the Rio Grande River in Cotabato City aboard a motorized banca marked “Al-Shameem.” The goods were carrying cigarette brands such as Fort, Bravo, ...

Truck ban during rush hours in Metro Manila resumes Monday; number coding still lifted THE truck ban hours in Metro Manila will again be in effect starting Monday, December 14, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced Thursday. MMDA General Jose Arturo S. Garcia, Jr. said the reimplementation of the ban was requested by the capitol region’s mayors, citing heavier traffic with the coming holidays. “Vehicles travelling on the streets of Metro Manila increase as Christmas...

Published December 10, 2020, 2:26 PM Smuggled cigarettes worth P79.51 million seized at the Port of Batangas in October were recently disposed of in Pampanga, the Bureau of Customs said. The seized cigarettes were destroyed on December 5, 6, and 8 at a destruction facility located in Greenleaf 888 Waste Disposal in Barangay Mitla, Porac, Pampanga. According to the bureau, the shipment arrived at the Port of Batangas from China on October 12. It was only declared as laptop bags. ...

(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) “The growing number of illegal trading cases prompts us to make environmental law enforcement as one of the priorities in the DENR,” DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu said in a statement. Last Nov. 20, the Pasay City Metropolitan Trial Court Branch 48 convicted Jesse Camaro for illegally transporting 757 tarantulas with an estimated value of P310,900 and Customs duties and taxes amounting to P54,752. Camaro was found guilty of violating Republic Act (RA) 9147 or the Wil...