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                    [Title] => Lacson's dream: To arrest Lucio Co
                    [Summary] => Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Panfilo Lacson has a dream: to arrest and send to jail Lucio Co, a known friend of President Estrada, on smuggling charges. 


In one of his rare candid moments with reporters, Lacson said authorities have long suspected Co of being one of the country’s big-time smugglers.

However, he said police officers have not come up with evidence to pin down Co.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 106925 [Title] => Customs mulls Brazil meat raps [Summary] => Customs authorities may file charges against the importer of P20 million worth of frozen meat from Brazil found to be contaimated with foot and mouth disease.

Lawyer George Jereos, deputy Customs commissioner for intelligence and enforcement group, told reporters yesterday they are determining the fines and other penalties to be imposed to Schutze International Trading and Consulting Inc for bringing into the country the contraband in 11 refrigerated vans.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 89195 [Title] => BOC nets P66 M from ‘hot’ cars [Summary] => The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has chalked up P66 million from the auction of 29 "hot" cars since February this year, capped by the sale of five more luxury vehicles yesterday.

Special legal assistant and auctions adviser Imelda Cruz said total proceeds from the ninth auction held by the bureau was P10.752 million.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 120555 [Title] => ORA MISMO - Only sa NAIA: Sibak ka kapag gumawa ng mabuti ! [Summary] => Dahil sa pagtupad sa tungkulin isang ahente ng Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) sa NAIA customshouse ang sinibak ni Customs Commissioner Renato Ampil. Inobliga kasi ng ahente na magbayad ng tamang buwis ang isang milyonaryong Intsik sa mga dala nitong Christmas giveaways para raw gamitin sa isang Jollibee franchise. Nagsumbong ang Intsik sa kumpale raw ni Lacson.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096558 [AuthorName] => Butch M. Quejada [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88868 [Title] => No oil price hike this month — DOE [Summary] => Local oil companies will not increase prices of petroleum products this month, according to the energy department.

Energy Secretary Mario Tiaoqui said that he had received reassurances from the oil companies that they were not inclined to increase prices at the moment.

"They have not increased their prices. From what we understand they will not increase in November. That is the information we received from them," Tiaoqui told The STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88898 [Title] => 'Hot’ Benz used by Palace for dignitaries [Summary] => Visiting dignitaries are driven around in one of the 22 smuggled cars - a Mercedes Benz - being kept at the Presidential Security Group (PSG) motorpool at Malacañang.

However, Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamora assured reporters yesterday the 21 other luxury cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) remain in safekeeping and none had been assigned to any government official.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88889 [Title] => Palace: ‘Hot’ cars not missing [Summary] => There are 22 Customs-seized vehicles, not 17, being garaged at Malacañang, and none of them is missing.

Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamora assured the public yesterday that 22 sport utility vehicles (SUVs) can be accounted for while being held for safekeeping.

Zamora, whose office oversees the Malacañang motorpool department, told The STAR he has personally checked on the SUVs.

"The vehicles are with us because if they are left at the Customs warehouses, they will be cannibalized," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88595 [Title] => All ‘hot’ cars still in Palace, BOC man says [Summary] => All 32 "hot" luxury cars being readied for auction by the Bureau of Customs remain intact at Malacañang.

A source close to Customs Commissioner Renato Ampil told The STAR yesterday not a single unit of the remaining luxury cars out of the 52 seized from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority freeport zone in Zambales in 1998 are missing from the motorpool of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) in Malacañang.

"As far as the units from Subic are concerned, these are all intact, not one missing," the official said.
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87397 [Title] => Seized goods not smuggled - Customs [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs at the Subic freeport zone clarified yesterday that the seven container vans recently confiscated by Task Force Aduana along the Gapan-Olongapo Road in Dinalupihan, Bataan did not contain any hot goods.

This came as Chairman Felicito Payumo of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) reiterated that his administration has been very cooperative with other agencies in stopping smuggling through the freeport. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

CUSTOMS COMMISSIONER RENATO AMPIL
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                    [ArticleID] => 91557
                    [Title] => Lacson's dream: To arrest Lucio Co
                    [Summary] => Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Panfilo Lacson has a dream: to arrest and send to jail Lucio Co, a known friend of President Estrada, on smuggling charges. 


In one of his rare candid moments with reporters, Lacson said authorities have long suspected Co of being one of the country’s big-time smugglers.

However, he said police officers have not come up with evidence to pin down Co.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 106925 [Title] => Customs mulls Brazil meat raps [Summary] => Customs authorities may file charges against the importer of P20 million worth of frozen meat from Brazil found to be contaimated with foot and mouth disease.

Lawyer George Jereos, deputy Customs commissioner for intelligence and enforcement group, told reporters yesterday they are determining the fines and other penalties to be imposed to Schutze International Trading and Consulting Inc for bringing into the country the contraband in 11 refrigerated vans.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 89195 [Title] => BOC nets P66 M from ‘hot’ cars [Summary] => The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has chalked up P66 million from the auction of 29 "hot" cars since February this year, capped by the sale of five more luxury vehicles yesterday.

Special legal assistant and auctions adviser Imelda Cruz said total proceeds from the ninth auction held by the bureau was P10.752 million.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 120555 [Title] => ORA MISMO - Only sa NAIA: Sibak ka kapag gumawa ng mabuti ! [Summary] => Dahil sa pagtupad sa tungkulin isang ahente ng Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) sa NAIA customshouse ang sinibak ni Customs Commissioner Renato Ampil. Inobliga kasi ng ahente na magbayad ng tamang buwis ang isang milyonaryong Intsik sa mga dala nitong Christmas giveaways para raw gamitin sa isang Jollibee franchise. Nagsumbong ang Intsik sa kumpale raw ni Lacson.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096558 [AuthorName] => Butch M. Quejada [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88868 [Title] => No oil price hike this month — DOE [Summary] => Local oil companies will not increase prices of petroleum products this month, according to the energy department.

Energy Secretary Mario Tiaoqui said that he had received reassurances from the oil companies that they were not inclined to increase prices at the moment.

"They have not increased their prices. From what we understand they will not increase in November. That is the information we received from them," Tiaoqui told The STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88898 [Title] => 'Hot’ Benz used by Palace for dignitaries [Summary] => Visiting dignitaries are driven around in one of the 22 smuggled cars - a Mercedes Benz - being kept at the Presidential Security Group (PSG) motorpool at Malacañang.

However, Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamora assured reporters yesterday the 21 other luxury cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) remain in safekeeping and none had been assigned to any government official.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88889 [Title] => Palace: ‘Hot’ cars not missing [Summary] => There are 22 Customs-seized vehicles, not 17, being garaged at Malacañang, and none of them is missing.

Executive Secretary Ronaldo Zamora assured the public yesterday that 22 sport utility vehicles (SUVs) can be accounted for while being held for safekeeping.

Zamora, whose office oversees the Malacañang motorpool department, told The STAR he has personally checked on the SUVs.

"The vehicles are with us because if they are left at the Customs warehouses, they will be cannibalized," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 88595 [Title] => All ‘hot’ cars still in Palace, BOC man says [Summary] => All 32 "hot" luxury cars being readied for auction by the Bureau of Customs remain intact at Malacañang.

A source close to Customs Commissioner Renato Ampil told The STAR yesterday not a single unit of the remaining luxury cars out of the 52 seized from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority freeport zone in Zambales in 1998 are missing from the motorpool of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) in Malacañang.

"As far as the units from Subic are concerned, these are all intact, not one missing," the official said.
[DatePublished] => 2000-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87397 [Title] => Seized goods not smuggled - Customs [Summary] =>

The Bureau of Customs at the Subic freeport zone clarified yesterday that the seven container vans recently confiscated by Task Force Aduana along the Gapan-Olongapo Road in Dinalupihan, Bataan did not contain any hot goods.

This came as Chairman Felicito Payumo of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) reiterated that his administration has been very cooperative with other agencies in stopping smuggling through the freeport. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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