The Office of the Ombudsman dismissed the cases filed by suspected illegal rice importer Bold Bidder Marketing and General Merchandise against top officials of the Bureau of Customs, led by Commissioner John P. Sevilla, which stem for the Bureau’s refusal to release the firm’s rice shipments.

In a joint resolution, the Ombudsman dismissed Bold Bidder’s complaint against Sevilla; Deputy Commissioners Maria Edita Tan, Agaton Uvero, Ariel Nepumoceno and Jessie Dellosa, as well as Ernesto Benitez, Jr, Acting District Collector, BOC-Port of Batangas, because the ‘refusal to heed a court order must be addressed by the Court, not by [the Office of the Ombudsman].’

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