ALERT operatives of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) in the Port of Batangas have seized millions of pesos worth of smuggled frozen Peking ducks from Hong Kong recently.

CIIS-Batangas officer-in-charge Manolo Arevalo on Thursday said the shipment was outright seizureable in favor of the government because it lacked the required importation permit from the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) and its consignee was found to be fictitious.

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