The Department of Agriculture (DA) is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fast-track its investigation on the smuggling of agricultural products, as it seeks to discourage the illegal entry of commodities into the Philippines.
Four names of alleged "players" in vegetable smuggling supposedly protected by politicians were floated in a Senate investigation Tuesday.NICA director Edsel Batalla confirmed that the four names mentioned by Senate President Vicente Sotto III were included in their list but the information is still subject for validation as these are all "raw information" from their operations.