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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217368 [Title] => NAIA Customs releases play money smuggler [Summary] => Theres no law against carrying play money.
A day after airport Customs agents arrested an American national for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country some $10 billion in fake federal reserve notes, they had to release him after finding out that what they seized were wads of harmless play money.
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Customs District Collector Celso Templo ordered the release of Oded Avel, a resident of Los Angeles, California.
Templo said he is free to travel. Avel was originally from Israel.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217285 [Title] => NAIA Customs men seize $10-B worth of fake dollars [Summary] => An alleged member of a money-laundering syndicate based in the United States was arrested by Customs examiners at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) the other day after he tried to smuggle some $10 billion worth of fake US federal reserve notes out of the country.
The suspect, Oded Avel, holds an American passport and claims to have been a resident of Los Angeles, California for the past 20 years, NAIA Customs collector Celso Templo told reporters yesterday.
Avel also said he was originally from Israel.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 188184 [Title] => NAIA, ports on heightened alert [Summary] => The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said yesterday security has been heightened at the Ninoy Aquino Airport (NAIA) and other entry points after Japanese intelligence reports showed militants were sending letter bombs to Myanmars embassies in the region.
Myanmar authorities have blamed dissident groups of exiles living outside the military-ruled state for a series of parcel bombs sent to its missions in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The BOC said all officers had been told "to be on the lookout for any suspicious parcels."
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185082 [Title] => Customs seizes arms shipment [Summary] => Airport Customs District Collector Celso Templo issued yesterday a warrant of seizure and detention of a shipment of assorted firearms, including automatic assault rifles and ammunitions, for gross undervaluation. The shipment, flown in via a chartered flight from Yugoslavia, weighed 10,189 kgs. and included 1,400 pieces of cal. 40 and 9 mm handguns automatic assault rifles, and 550,000 bullets.
Templo said that based on the Blue Book of Gun Values, the importer identified as R. Espineli Trading had grossly undervalued the shipment by more than 50 percent.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 182854 [Title] => GSIS also bought 2 more paintings in HK [Summary] => The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) appeared to have gone on a buying spree in last Sundays auction of Southeast Asian works of art in Hong Kong.
Customs inspectors discovered that the agency bought not only one, but three paintings of Filipino artists during the auction held by the world-famous Christies.
The state-run pension fund came under fire for splurging P46 million on a century-old painting entitled "Parisian Life" by Juan Luna.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1681404 [AuthorName] => Rey Arquiza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177700 [Title] => Medicines, pirated CDs intercepted at NAIA [Summary] => Customs authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) intercepted yesterday two bags containing smuggled medicines and "mother copies" of video CDs with a combined value of more than P1 million.
Airport District Collector Celso Templo said the medicines arrived on board a Korean Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, while the VCDs were unloaded from a Malaysian Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156960 [Title] => Guns seized by NAIA customs [Summary] => Customs authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) held yesterday a shipment of high-powered Heckler and Kock firearms from Great Britain for failure of a Makati-based importing company to present the required permit from the Firearms and Explosives Division of the Philippine National Police.
Although Tri-Mark Ventures has a license to import firearms and ammunition, NAIA Customs District Collector Celso Templo said that the company did not have a permit to import the shipment which consisted of late model assault rifles, magazines, bullets and accessories.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146678 [Title] => Customs seize cellular phones worth P10 M [Summary] => Customs agents held yesterday a shipment of cellular phones for Singapore with an estimated value of P10 million for failure of a brokers representatives to present an export declaration.
Meantime, Customs officials are trying to determine whether a telecommunications firm, considered one of the countrys largest cell-phone service providers, has authority to export the cellular phones.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 117925 [Title] => Pasahero nangulimbat sa loob ng eroplano [Summary] => Sinong may sabing ‘millionaires don’t steal’ ?
Alam ba ninyong isang residente ng exclusive village sa Makati na pasahero sa economy class ng Philippines Airlines flight buhat sa San Francisco ang umamin kahapon na pumuslit sa business class at saka kinuha ang pera ng isang natutulog na pasahero doon.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 123046 [Title] => Pasahero nangulimbat sa loob ng eroplano [Summary] => Sinong may sabing millionaires dont steal ?
Alam ba ninyong isang residente ng exclusive village sa Makati na pasahero sa economy class ng Philippines Airlines flight buhat sa San Francisco ang umamin kahapon na pumuslit sa business class at saka kinuha ang pera ng isang natutulog na pasahero doon.
Gayunman, nagpasya ang nabiktima na si Quintina Timbol Castel, ng 5 Longoes St., Calumpit, Bulacan na patawarin na lamang ang suspect na nakilalang si Kristina Basa, 43, ng Dasmariñas Village, Makati, matapos na maibalik sa kanya ang kinuhang $5,000. [DatePublished] => 2001-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217368 [Title] => NAIA Customs releases play money smuggler [Summary] => Theres no law against carrying play money.
A day after airport Customs agents arrested an American national for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country some $10 billion in fake federal reserve notes, they had to release him after finding out that what they seized were wads of harmless play money.
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Customs District Collector Celso Templo ordered the release of Oded Avel, a resident of Los Angeles, California.
Templo said he is free to travel. Avel was originally from Israel.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 217285 [Title] => NAIA Customs men seize $10-B worth of fake dollars [Summary] => An alleged member of a money-laundering syndicate based in the United States was arrested by Customs examiners at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) the other day after he tried to smuggle some $10 billion worth of fake US federal reserve notes out of the country.
The suspect, Oded Avel, holds an American passport and claims to have been a resident of Los Angeles, California for the past 20 years, NAIA Customs collector Celso Templo told reporters yesterday.
Avel also said he was originally from Israel.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 188184 [Title] => NAIA, ports on heightened alert [Summary] => The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said yesterday security has been heightened at the Ninoy Aquino Airport (NAIA) and other entry points after Japanese intelligence reports showed militants were sending letter bombs to Myanmars embassies in the region.
Myanmar authorities have blamed dissident groups of exiles living outside the military-ruled state for a series of parcel bombs sent to its missions in Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The BOC said all officers had been told "to be on the lookout for any suspicious parcels."
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185082 [Title] => Customs seizes arms shipment [Summary] => Airport Customs District Collector Celso Templo issued yesterday a warrant of seizure and detention of a shipment of assorted firearms, including automatic assault rifles and ammunitions, for gross undervaluation. The shipment, flown in via a chartered flight from Yugoslavia, weighed 10,189 kgs. and included 1,400 pieces of cal. 40 and 9 mm handguns automatic assault rifles, and 550,000 bullets.
Templo said that based on the Blue Book of Gun Values, the importer identified as R. Espineli Trading had grossly undervalued the shipment by more than 50 percent.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 182854 [Title] => GSIS also bought 2 more paintings in HK [Summary] => The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) appeared to have gone on a buying spree in last Sundays auction of Southeast Asian works of art in Hong Kong.
Customs inspectors discovered that the agency bought not only one, but three paintings of Filipino artists during the auction held by the world-famous Christies.
The state-run pension fund came under fire for splurging P46 million on a century-old painting entitled "Parisian Life" by Juan Luna.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1681404 [AuthorName] => Rey Arquiza [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177700 [Title] => Medicines, pirated CDs intercepted at NAIA [Summary] => Customs authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) intercepted yesterday two bags containing smuggled medicines and "mother copies" of video CDs with a combined value of more than P1 million.
Airport District Collector Celso Templo said the medicines arrived on board a Korean Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, while the VCDs were unloaded from a Malaysian Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 156960 [Title] => Guns seized by NAIA customs [Summary] => Customs authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) held yesterday a shipment of high-powered Heckler and Kock firearms from Great Britain for failure of a Makati-based importing company to present the required permit from the Firearms and Explosives Division of the Philippine National Police.
Although Tri-Mark Ventures has a license to import firearms and ammunition, NAIA Customs District Collector Celso Templo said that the company did not have a permit to import the shipment which consisted of late model assault rifles, magazines, bullets and accessories.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146678 [Title] => Customs seize cellular phones worth P10 M [Summary] => Customs agents held yesterday a shipment of cellular phones for Singapore with an estimated value of P10 million for failure of a brokers representatives to present an export declaration.
Meantime, Customs officials are trying to determine whether a telecommunications firm, considered one of the countrys largest cell-phone service providers, has authority to export the cellular phones.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 117925 [Title] => Pasahero nangulimbat sa loob ng eroplano [Summary] => Sinong may sabing ‘millionaires don’t steal’ ?
Alam ba ninyong isang residente ng exclusive village sa Makati na pasahero sa economy class ng Philippines Airlines flight buhat sa San Francisco ang umamin kahapon na pumuslit sa business class at saka kinuha ang pera ng isang natutulog na pasahero doon.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 123046 [Title] => Pasahero nangulimbat sa loob ng eroplano [Summary] => Sinong may sabing millionaires dont steal ?
Alam ba ninyong isang residente ng exclusive village sa Makati na pasahero sa economy class ng Philippines Airlines flight buhat sa San Francisco ang umamin kahapon na pumuslit sa business class at saka kinuha ang pera ng isang natutulog na pasahero doon.
Gayunman, nagpasya ang nabiktima na si Quintina Timbol Castel, ng 5 Longoes St., Calumpit, Bulacan na patawarin na lamang ang suspect na nakilalang si Kristina Basa, 43, ng Dasmariñas Village, Makati, matapos na maibalik sa kanya ang kinuhang $5,000. [DatePublished] => 2001-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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