The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has added six additional digitalization projects as it continues to implement the modernization program as measures to improve its services and to fight corruption.
This was part of the discussion brought by BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz during the visit of Senator
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, December 11, sought an assessment of the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) modernization program amid the influx of smuggled products in the country.
Recently, BOC agents have seized more than P63-million worth of frozen goods from Hong Kong and China.
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Amid the influx of smuggled items into the country, members of the Senate committee on ways and means will inspect today the Bureau of Customs facilities in Manila’s Port Area.
MANILA - Commissioner Rey Leonardo Guerrero said several reforms initiated by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) under his leadership have helped improve the collection efficiency of the agency and ably assisted in the Duterte administration's sustained efforts to curb agricultural smuggling. These reforms, among others, include, automating 82 percent of the 170 processes in the BOC to reduce human intervention that provides opportunities for corruption. Guerrero cited the BOC's accomplishments on his watch as he vehemently denied unfounded allegations linking him to the smuggling of agricultural products. "The Senate Committee report citing me as one of the government officials involved in agricultural smuggling also contains the numerous accomplishments of BOC in its campaign against agricultural smuggling, and the adoption of the executive recommendations, which I directed," he said. Among these recommendations implemented by the BOC are the strengthened inter-agency coll
Customs Commissioner Rey Guerrero on Tuesday refuted the Senate Committee of the Whole’s report which identified him as among the alleged protectors and smugglers of agricultural products.