SUSPENDED CUSTOMS OFFICIAL SAYS ‘BIG TOES’ STEPPED ON
Palace places RATS execs in freezer
10/05/2011A lot of sacred cows appear to litter President Aquino’s much-hyped straight path which was believed to be the reason behind the suspension of eight key officials of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) involved in running after known smugglers.
Suspended was a group of so-called integrity auditors at the BoC who supervise the government’s Run After The Smugglers (RATS) program.
The Department of Justice (DoJ), acting on Malacañang directives, ordered the suspension of Deputy Customs Commissioner Gregorio Chavez, lawyer Christopher Dy Buco, Edgar Quinones, Francisco Fernandez, Alfred Adao, Jose Elmer Velarde, Thomas Patrick Relucio and Jim Erick Acosta.
“The RATS group has stepped on big toes in our unrelenting drive against smugglers. Now, we can see that the smuggling syndicates are using all the resources at their disposal to get rid of us and make the RATS program fail,” Chavez said in a statement sent by email..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111005hed1.html
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