Don’t underestimate garlic. Smugglers seem to be into it.
“The Bureau of Customs recently seized around 100,000 kilograms of garlic smuggled from Hong Kong at the Port of Batangas,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report noted: “The garlic, packed in ten-kilogram bags purportedly from Taiwan, arrived in two separate shipments on June 1 and June 12 on vessels MV ‘MCC SANDIWA’ and MV ‘RUBINA SCHULTE.'”
The garlic shipments, which were were misdeclared as “cocoa beans to be used as raw material for chocolate,” was consigned to a company based in Cagayan de Oro City; and was brokered by somebody named “Antonio Enriquez, with address at Tuktukan, Guiguinto, Bulacan.” However, the consignee was said to be non-existent.
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