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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
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Customs loses seized
goods worth billions |
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By William Depasupil, Reporter
UP to a billion pesos worth of
smuggled goods seized by the Bureau of Customs—and supposed to be
stored and secured in a private warehouse inside the Harbour Center
Terminal in North Harbor Manila—could not be accounted for, The
Manila Times learned Monday from a Bureau of Customs (BOC) source.
The source and some BOC officials
believe Customs insiders and businessmen have conspired to hijack
and sell the goods to the local market, as in the case of the
P40-million worth of smuggled pork that was also pilfered from the
same private warehouse used by the bureau.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Satur forcibly
made to take trip to Leyte but flight turns back
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After being dragged out of the
Manila Police District Headquarters at early morning on Monday to
board a private plane to Leyte, Bayan Muna Party-List Rep. Satur
Ocampo was returned to the MPD-HQ about 3:15 p.m.
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Court of Appeals
upholds Sanchez
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THE Court of Appeals (CA)
permanently enjoined the Office of the Ombudsman from implementing
the six-month preventive suspension order against Governor Armand
Sanchez of Batangas.
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House joins call
for UN probe into NPA killings
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House leaders on Monday added
their voices to that of the Palace’s call on the United Nations to
probe into the mass killings allegedly perpetrated by communist
rebels with their own former comrades as victims.
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Political Roundup
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Albano: GO is on the verge of
collapse
Maceda claims Recto, Arroyo
distancing selves from GMA
FPJ daughter to run
under FPJPM party-list
GO to blame for its
funding woes – Angara
TU’s Mike Defensor bats for
environment-friendly CBAs
Pichay twits moral
ascendancy of GO
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Atong Ang gets
2-to-6-year sentence
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Charlie “Atong” Ang, the
Philippine businessman accused of helping former President Joseph
Estrada illegally build an $80-million fortune was jailed on Monday,
court officials said.
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Pulse Asia’s 13
winning party-lists
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Bayan Muna topped Pulse Asia’s
findings from the March 2007 Ulat ng Bayan national survey on
party-list preferences with 12 other groups, out of 97 party-list
groups, getting at least one House seat.
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Rudy Distrito: 4
to 12 years
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Rudy Distrito went to court for
the last time on the morning of March 16.
It was his date with destiny.
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