CORRUPTION is very much alive in the Bureau of Customs despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s warning to the officialdom that he won’t tolerate even a whiff or a whisper of wrongdoing in government.

At the resumption of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on the P6.4 billion shabu shipment from China, customs facilitator Mark Ruben Taguba disclosed to senators the various fees he had to pay just to expedite the release of his cargoes.

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