Four importers of agricultural products will be blacklisted amid their involvement in smuggling activities, Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. revealed yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines —
He said the Department of Agriculture is currently gathering evidence against unscrupulous companies. Under a new DA regulation, Tiu Laurel said the importer would need to declare the volume of the entire shipment. “The BOC caught the shipments. They were sent to a condemnation facility for burning. We saw that the contents of the container van were being transferred to a truck to be sold . They tried to bribe me initially for P250,000 per container. It went up to P1 million . We burned all of them . We will not destroy our reputation by that ,” he said.
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