BOC, tuloy ang pag-iikot sa iba't ibang warehouse ng bigas sa bansa

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00:00 The Bureau of Customs is continuously touring different rice warehouses in the country.

00:05 In the new program "Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon,"

00:08 BOC Assistant Commissioner and Spokesperson Attorney Vincent Philip Maronilla

00:14 said that it is part of the monitoring against smugglers and rice hoarders.

00:20 Among the BOC's participants,

00:23 there are 42 million pesos of smuggled rice from Zamboanga.

00:28 This is equivalent to more than 40,000 bags of rice.

00:32 The BOC discovered some warehouses in Las Pinas and Cavite

00:37 that sell high prices of rice.

00:41 As of now, more than 100 million pesos worth of rice

00:46 is being smuggled by the BOC.

00:49 We are continuously filing cases in the Department of Justice.

00:55 In fact, even in other products, not just agricultural products,

01:02 we are continuously filing cases.

01:04 And right now, the total value of smuggled items that we apprehend

01:11 and the cases that are being faced by importers

01:15 is already 32 billion pesos.

01:18 This is a record high for the Bureau of Customs.