SEN. Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday presented a contractual employee of the Bureau of Customs who corroborated customs “fixer” Mark Taguba’s claims about the existence of the “tara” (payoff) system at the bureau.

At the resumption of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee inquiry into alleged corruption at the bureau on Wednesday, May Escoto, a staff member of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) Division chief Joel Pinawin, said she personally handed envelops, believed to have contained money, to Pinawin.

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