Big time ‘smuggler’ to turn whistle-blower — Customs
By Conrado Ching 08/24/2010 The Office of the Commissioner (OCom) of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) was reported yesterday to have convinced a “major player” at the waterfront to blow the whistle on big time smugglers and turn state witness. This was described by an OCom source as a “positive development” to once and for all pin down big-time smugglers whose continuing illegal activities have been causing the government billions of pesos in lost revenues every year. “This is a positive development, which could successfully bring to an end to the government campaign against big-time smuggling and to put behind bars those behind it, a source from the OCom, who asked for anonymity, told the Tribune. The OCom wants to zero in on the publicly-known smugglers but it has been having difficulty in pinning them down allegedly due to the lack of a paper trail on their illegal operations. These alleged smugglers also operate under several layers and only their dummies surface, which explains why none of them had been charged, except for the “John Does,” whose fictitious names appear as incorporators in non-existent trading firms being used as their conduits in smuggling operations. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100824hed2.html |
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