Resin smuggling in Subic continues
by : Alex T. Silva
SMUGGLING of “resin’” continues to flourish at the Bureau of Customs (BoC) in connivance with some “locators” doing business in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Olongapo City.
Hundreds of container vans containing “resin” (raw material used in manufacturing plastic products) were spirited out from a locator’s warehouse inside the Subic Bay Management Authority (SBMA) weekly without paying taxes and duties through the government’s “Customs-bonded warehousing” (CBW) schemes (where imported raw materials used in the production are free of tax provided the said finished products will be re-exported from the country of origin).
In connivance with some Customs officials in the transshipment operation from the Port of Manila (POM) at North Harbor with some freeport officials, the resin smuggling that usually came from China, Korea and the Middle East continues unabated.
People’s Tonight learned that a group of smugglers, identified only as certain Baby, Anits, B.O., Tan, Ruben, Furgo, “uses different locators’ warehouses as their scheme to avoid payment of correct taxes and duties.”
A locator in Subic Bay Freeport Zone doing business under the name “Pearla” was being used as conduit in smuggling activities which include other locators from the different economic zones.
Most of the smuggled resin shipments were consigned to Pearla’s warehouses even if she is not engaged in manufacturing business.
The locators usually applied to import goods such as permits to import raw materials including used clothing which was being to recycled into rugs or carpets, right-hand-drive vehicles which will be converted to left-hand-drive, resin which will be used in manufacturing plastic products such chairs, monobloc, spare parts, imported wines and liquors, RTWs, cigarettes and other highly dutiable products.
With the connivance of some Customs and zone officials and in exchange for huge sum of money, the smugglers using “Pearla” would redirect into another Customs-bonded warehouse outside the Freeport Zone.
The shipments that actually arrived in the South and North Harbors would be diverted to the smugglers’ contact warehouses in Metro Manila.
“Puro papel lamang o dokumento ang nakakarating sa opisina ng Customs sa SBMA at sa bodega ni Pearla at ang tunay na kargamento ay nada-divert sa iba’t ibang bodega na karaniwan ay pag-aari ng mga Intsik sa Kamaynilaan,” Tonight learned.
The shipments, according to the rules, should be escorted by Customs guard from Customs zone to the supposed point of destination but with the exchange of sum of money, the guard’s signature on the documents would be forged to prove that the shipments have reached the real destination.
People's Tonight
SMUGGLING of “resin’” continues to flourish at the Bureau of Customs (BoC) in connivance with some “locators” doing business in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Olongapo City.
Hundreds of container vans containing “resin” (raw material used in manufacturing plastic products) were spirited out from a locator’s warehouse inside the Subic Bay Management Authority (SBMA) weekly without paying taxes and duties through the government’s “Customs-bonded warehousing” (CBW) schemes (where imported raw materials used in the production are free of tax provided the said finished products will be re-exported from the country of origin).
In connivance with some Customs officials in the transshipment operation from the Port of Manila (POM) at North Harbor with some freeport officials, the resin smuggling that usually came from China, Korea and the Middle East continues unabated.
People’s Tonight learned that a group of smugglers, identified only as certain Baby, Anits, B.O., Tan, Ruben, Furgo, “uses different locators’ warehouses as their scheme to avoid payment of correct taxes and duties.”
A locator in Subic Bay Freeport Zone doing business under the name “Pearla” was being used as conduit in smuggling activities which include other locators from the different economic zones.
Most of the smuggled resin shipments were consigned to Pearla’s warehouses even if she is not engaged in manufacturing business.
The locators usually applied to import goods such as permits to import raw materials including used clothing which was being to recycled into rugs or carpets, right-hand-drive vehicles which will be converted to left-hand-drive, resin which will be used in manufacturing plastic products such chairs, monobloc, spare parts, imported wines and liquors, RTWs, cigarettes and other highly dutiable products.
With the connivance of some Customs and zone officials and in exchange for huge sum of money, the smugglers using “Pearla” would redirect into another Customs-bonded warehouse outside the Freeport Zone.
The shipments that actually arrived in the South and North Harbors would be diverted to the smugglers’ contact warehouses in Metro Manila.
“Puro papel lamang o dokumento ang nakakarating sa opisina ng Customs sa SBMA at sa bodega ni Pearla at ang tunay na kargamento ay nada-divert sa iba’t ibang bodega na karaniwan ay pag-aari ng mga Intsik sa Kamaynilaan,” Tonight learned.
The shipments, according to the rules, should be escorted by Customs guard from Customs zone to the supposed point of destination but with the exchange of sum of money, the guard’s signature on the documents would be forged to prove that the shipments have reached the real destination.
People's Tonight
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