THE graft and economic sabotage complaints Sen. Panfilo Lacson filed against former Bureau of Customs commissioner Nicanor Faeldon yesterday exposed the alleged rice smuggling operations in the city.
A Rappler report showed that Lacson alleged that there were two questionable shipments of rice through this city early this year.
According to the report, the first shipment involved 21,800 bags of Vietnamese long grain white rice, valued at $370,600 in March 9, this year, and that the following day, there was another shipment with 18,200 bags of rice valued at $309,400.
The Rappler report stated that Lacson implicated nine others for “conspiring to smuggle 40,000 bags of rice, in two waves, to Cebu Lite Trading Inc. without payment of customs taxes and duties and without the required import permit…”
Other respondents in Lacson’s complaint filed with the Office of the Ombudsman are National Food Authority Administrator Jason Aquino, former Cagayan de Oro district collector Tomas Alcid, Customs liaison officer to NFA Geniefelle Lagmay, Filomena Lim, Lucio Roger Lim Jr., Rowena Lim, Joselito Lopez, Josephine Rizalde, and Ambrosio Ursal Jr.. (cbc)
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