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                    [ArticleID] => 1265872
                    [Title] => Tua na ang barko nga puno og bugas
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Mikawat pa gyud og paggawas og katapusang kamandoan si Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon pagpa-release sa hapit 16,000 ka sakong bugas humay karga sa MV Queen of Joy gikan sa Manila International Containerized Port (MICP), bisan wala pa maklaro ang mga papeles niini sa Bureau of Customs – Port of Cebu.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136032 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1405881 [AuthorName] => John Rey Saavedra [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 50677 [Title] => Why the MV Great Faith escaped and the MT Damar did not [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 34154 [Title] => Private wharf susihon [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136036 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1405881 [AuthorName] => John Rey Saavedra [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 33717 [Title] => EDITORIAL – Remembering the Great Faith [Summary] =>

There has lately been a lot of fuss about Cebu being the hotbed of car smuggling in the south.

[DatePublished] => 2007-12-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235870 [Title] => 25 luxury right-hand-drive cars seized in Mandaue City [Summary] => CEBU — Twenty-five luxury right-hand-drive vehicles worth at least P12 million were seized in Mandaue City last Friday, raising speculations how the vehicles could have slipped Customs inspection.

Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) confiscated the luxury right-hand-drive vehicles, all second-hand, during a raid on the compound of Sulpicio and Dalisay Jao along A. S. Fortuna street.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200585 [Title] => ‘Dismissal may draw flak in anti-smuggling drive’ [Summary] => BUTUAN CITY — The dismissal of the July 12 Butuan rice smuggling cases in both the Office of the Ombudsman-Mindanao and the Butuan City Prosecutor‘s Office may send a wrong signal and may draw setback in the national government’s campaign against rice smuggling, said NBI Caraga Deputy Regional Director Reynaldo Esmeralda.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153323 [Title] => Who masterminded ship’s escape? DoF exec can’t tell [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The incredible saga of the MV Great Faith and its cargo of smuggled rice was a product of a grand conspiracy within the Bureau of Customs.

But this much was all Finance Undersecretary Cornelio Hizon could tell a congressional hearing here the other day for his efforts as head of a task force that investigated one of the most mysterious disappearances of an entire ship in the country’s history.
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153212 [Title] => Cardinal Vidal intercedes for Customs exec [Summary] => CEBU CITY — The escape of the MV Great Faith and its cargo of smuggled rice from Customs custody here last Christmas Eve, allegedly facilitated by a multimillion-peso bribe, has taken on a new twist.

Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal has written President Arroyo to intercede for former Customs deputy collector Santiago Maravillas, one of several ranking officials sought to be charged over the incident.

In a letter dated March 4, Vidal appealed to the President to give Maravillas "a just and fair inquiry and not a rush to judgment."
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Eliseo Gealan, a special agent of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service, said he came to know about the deal after the vessel slipped out of the Ouano wharf in Mandaue City.

Gealan has come forward to testify on what he knows about the mysterious disappearance of the ship, which carried more than 20,000 bags of allegedly smuggled rice.
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In a report submitted to Customs Commissioner Titus Villanueva, Cagayan de Oro District Port Collector Marietta Zamoranos said the vessels MV Matahari and MV Superstar I were intercepted in Mandaue, Cebu and Gingoog City in Cagayan, respectively.
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By John Rey Saavedra | December 19, 2007 - 12:00am
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