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The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has been on a roll in its big-time ant-smuggling campaigns as it confiscated, this time, around P1.4 billion worth of cigarettes in a raid on a warehouse in Sulu on Thursday, March 2.
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The Bureau of Customs yesterday seized some 19,000 cases of alleged smuggled cigarettes with an estimated market value of P1.425 billion during inspection of a warehouse in Indanan, Sulu.
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As cigarette prices go up every year due to mounting taxes, smugglers are having a field day in far-flung areas particularly in Mindanao, where as many as three in every five packs are cheap, but illicit.