ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police on Tuesday said about 200 boxes of smuggled cigarettes were confiscated by authorities in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines.
Chief Inspector Helen Galvez, a spokesperson for the regional police force, said the Coast Guard, local police and members of the military’s Joint Task Force Zamboanga, confiscated the cigarettes worth about P7 million from a commercial vessel, Maria Rebecca owned by Montenegro Shipping Lines.
The contraband was smuggled from Sabah in Malaysia and sneaked into Zamboanga. Galvez did not say how authorities managed to detect the entry of the Fort and LS cigarettes that Galvez claimed is banned in the country.
She said the cigarettes would be turned over to the Bureau of Customs here. Galvez did not who the owner of the cigarettes. (Mindanao Examiner)
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