NEWLY named Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Alberto Lina, through his companies, brokered the shipment of the controversial UH-1D helicopters from the US, which has been the subject of recent exposes by The Manila Times.

Interestingly, Lina’s brother, former senator and Interior and Local Government secretary Jose Lina, was a signatory in the supply contract forged between the Department of National Defense (DND) and Rice Aircraft Services Inc.

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