Customs agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport intercepted two packages containing US dollars equivalent to more than P300,000, which were smuggled via air cargo.
The two packages came from Tennessee and arrived at the Federal Express warehouse on Oct. 23 and 29, and were consigned to a resident of Poblacion village in Muntinlupa City.
“The packages were both declared as “correspondence/no value,” said Customs NAIA port collector Carmelita Talusan.
“The first one was discovered containing 75 pieces of 100-dollar bills, while the other contained 150 pieces of 20-dollar bills, 20 pieces of 50-dollar gills and 20 pieces of 100-dollar bills,” Talusan said.
Two months ago Talusan’s men intercepted another package with 8,000 dollars in 50- and 100-dollar bills concealed between the pages of a cooking magazine.
The package was also declared as “correspondence from New Jersey and consigned to a resident of San Pedro in Laguna.
The latest confiscation brings to more than P1.5 million the worth of the foreign currencies that were seized by the Port of NAIA this year.