MANILA - The Court of Appeals (CA) has reversed the one-year suspension without pay imposed by the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) on a customs officer who refused a reassignment. The CA's Second Division granted on June 13 the petition of Bureau of Customs (BOC) operations officer Dolores Domingo and set aside the Aug. 14, 2019 decision of the OMB that found her guilty of gross insubordination. It ruled that the OMB's decision was "arrived at arbitrarily or in disregard of law and the evidence on record". Domingo was reassigned in December 2016 from the Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group of the BOC Port of Manila to the Port of Cagayan de Oro. She appealed her reassignment to then-BOC Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, saying it was brought about by her feud with former director Milo Maestrecampo. Domingo said it would be oppressive as well as cruel that she would be forced to rent a place and require frequent travels to fulfill her obligations as a mother. While
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(Photo courtesy of BOC) MANILA - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) - Port of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (BOC-NAIA) on Monday reported the interception of 198 various species of tarantulas misdeclared as thermal mugs in Pasay City. In a statement, the port said the outbound shipment was about to be sent by a sender from Pasay City to a recipient in Italy when it was intercepted by officers at the BOC-DHL Express warehouse on June 7. The package was subjected to X-ray and 100 percent physical examination which led to the discovery of the live animals of different sizes that do not have the necessary permits. It was examined by the Customs Examiner from the NAIA Export Division, with the presence of representatives from the X-ray Inspection Project, Enforcement and Security Service, Customs Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Force, Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service, DHL Express, and Environmental Protection and Compliance Division. The seized tarantulas shall be the subject of corresp
Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Port of Limay seized some P10 million worth of smuggled cigarettes. The operation was carried out through a Letter of Authority from Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero on the alleged presence of smuggled items in a store and a resort in Barangay San Vicente,
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Wednesday said it seized some P10 million worth of smuggled cigarettes in a joint buy-bust operation in Orion, Bataan earlier this week.