Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña has placed on floating status seven employees linked to the controversial entry into the country of P6.4 billion worth of shabu through the so-called green lane, which is reserved only for the country’s top corporations.

Lapeña also reshuffled all 15 section chiefs of the Formal Entry Division of the Port of Manila (PoM) in line with his reform program aimed at eliminating the so-called “tara (grease money)” system.

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