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Customs presses for shabu raps

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THE Bureau of Customs on Wednesday asked the Department of Justice to indict nine people for smuggling in connection with the P6.4-billion shabu shipment from China.

Customs said there was a strong basis to hold the respondents criminally liable for smuggling. 

Meanwhile, more than 15 kilograms of shabu worth at least P75 million that were seized by Customs personnel at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport were turned over to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to be destroyed.

Combined agents of Customs and PDEA nabbed two people, identified as Francis MelvinFeliciano and Raquel Kilario Dela Cruz, after claiming the package at FedEx by presenting a fake ID of  one Michael Espino Cruz while the two others, identified as Rogelio Almodiel and Hasmine Erquiza, were being sought by government operatives.

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 The respondents in the P6.4-billion smuggling case include the Philippine Hongfei Logistics Group of Companies Inc. chairman Chen Ju Long, also known as Richard Tan or Richard Chen, alleged customs fixer Mark Ruben Taguba II, businessman Kenneth Dong, Eirene May Tatad, owner of EMT Trading, consignee of the drug shipment; Taiwanese nationals Chen Min and Jhu Ming Jyun, warehouseman Fidel Anoche Dee, customs broker Teejay Marcellana, Manny Li and unidentified individuals whom Customs believed to have been involved in the shabu shipment. 

Customs rejected Taguba’s claims that the identity of the shipment found by authorities in Hong Fei’s warehouse in Valenzuela City on May 26 had not been “sufficiently established,” noting Chen’s counter-affidavit showing it was the same shipment, MCLU6001881, that arrived at the warehouse. 

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