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The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has been on a roll in its big-time ant-smuggling campaigns as it confiscated, this time, around P1.4 billion worth of cigarettes in a raid on a warehouse in Sulu on Thursday, March 2. BOC Commissioner Bienvenido Rubio said the operation stemmed from confirmed intellige
The Bureau of Customs yesterday seized some 19,000 cases of alleged smuggled cigarettes with an estimated market value of P1.425 billion during inspection of a warehouse in Indanan, Sulu.
As cigarette prices go up every year due to mounting taxes, smugglers are having a field day in far-flung areas particularly in Mindanao, where as many as three in every five packs are cheap, but illicit.