Police say there are indications that the cigarettes are being smuggled via Mindanao and then transported to the Visayas
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BACOLOD, Philippines – Cheap cigarettes, suspected to have been smuggled into the country, have flooded the Negros Occidental market, authorities confirmed on Monday, October 14. A recent raid at Bago Public Market in Barangay Makiling, Sagay City, on Saturday, October 12, led to the confiscation of nearly P1 million worth of untaxed cigarettes, police said.
They will be charged with violations of customs, tariffs, and intellectual property laws, said Roev Bryl Sobrejuanite, head of the inter-agency raiding team and a representative of the Bureau of Internal Revenue Region VI. The team included the Maritime Command, Bureau of Customs , and Sagay police.
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