Balay cleansing at Customs
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It appears that a turf battle going on at the Customs bureau, involving the closest aides of Noynoy, with no less than the famed Balay and Samar factions in the Palace jockeying for control of the juicy agency, has been heating up lately.
The struggle apparently was one of the factors for the ousting of Customs Commissioner Angelito Alvarez and now the likely purging of Alvarez’s men at the Bureau of Customs (BoC).
An eight-man team of the Run After the Smugglers (RATS) program of the BoC, which is considered the key effort of the government against smugglers, was strangely placed under suspension by Malacañang when it should have been the call of Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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