CORRUPTION in the Bureau of Customs (BOC) took a slap on the wrist after the Office of the Ombudsman suspended two officials in Cavite province who were caught red-handed mulcting money “for the boys.”

Customs operations officers Romeo Alicaya and Rodel Arciga were suspended from office after the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) apprehended the two in an entrapment operation when proprietor Corazon Drilon of Orange Wine Trading complained about the two for their extortion.

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