Customs seizes ₧350-M worth of smuggled products

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) has seized an estimated P350million worth of used clothing (ukay-ukay), mosquito coils, fake goods and other suspected smuggled imported goods in Bulacan recently.

The Letter of Authority (LOA) issued by Customs Commissioner Bienvenido Y. Rubio was implemented on July 13 by a team led by Intelligence Officer 3 Alvin Enciso of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-Manila International Container Port (CIIS-MICP).

Rubio said that the allegedly smuggled goods inside the warehouses would amount to more or less P350 million.

Enciso said that “several warehouses were found to contain smuggled goods after we served the LOA to the warehouse administrator and respective warehouse representatives.”

Intelligence Group Deputy Commissioner Juvymax R. Uy said that the warehouses have been sealed