ZAMBOANGA MAYOR Beng Climaco lauded members of the 74th Infantry Battalion after soldiers manning a checkpoint intercepted a van transporting 186 boxes of smuggled cigarettes.
Soldiers flagged down the van
for security inspection in Sangali and when they opened the door, dozens of
boxes of cigarettes with various brands were neatly stacked inside among styro
box coolers.
“Muchisimas gracias 74th
Infantry Battalion for your commitment and support to the government's
anti-smuggling campaign,” Climaco said.
The 74th Infantry
Battalion is under Col. James Sababan. The army did not say who the owner of
the seized cigarettes.
Last month, Climaco also praised the Bureau of
Customs and the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National
Police and other law enforcement agencies involved in the government’s
anti-smuggling campaign after District Collector Segundo Sigmundfreud Barte
Jr. destroyed some P545-million worth of
smuggled cigarettes and raw materials in the illegal manufacture of cigarettes.
The assorted cigarettes were
seized in separate anti-smuggling operations since May in Zamboanga Peninsula,
Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces, according to Barte.
The Bureau of Customs also handed
over to the Bureau of Internal Revenue some P1 billion in fake revenue stamps seized
from the series of apprehensions in May in Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur
provinces.
Climaco warned smugglers to stop their nefarious
activities because the long arm of the law will eventually catch up with them.
“There will be no stopping in the government’s campaign against smugglers. It’s
either we get you or you stop your illegal activities for good,” she said. (Zamboanga
Post)
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