Oil smuggling may be back with vengeance

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is looking into the possible resurgence of oil smuggling following reports that smuggling of finished fuels has become rampant again in the third quarter of 2013 after a significant reduction in the first half of the year.

BOC deputy commissioner Ariel Nepomuceno is keeping tabs oil smuggling, but clarified that their data has no “extraordinary event.”