PASG chief wants Subic Customs official sacked
SUBIC BAY Freeport: Undersecretary Antonio Villar, chief of both the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) and Subic Task Force, has urged the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to sack a bureau official based in this freeport.
The recommendation was made on Thursday, or a day after it was reported that 15 boxes of brand-new cellular phones worth P22 million had disappeared while allegedly in the custody of Zaldy Almoradie, Subic special deputy collector.
The high-end cell phones, according to Erol Albano, Subic deputy collector for operations, had been declared as communication equipment and were valued at only P48,000. He said the cell phones were worth P22 million.
The issue on the missing items came up at a press conference organized by Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority to formally welcome Villar as the new head of Subic Task Force. The forum turned out to be a faceoff between Albano and Almoradie. Almoradie explained that the cell phones cannot be placed under the jurisdiction of Customs since they were not yet considered as imports.
Ferdinand Hernandez, SBMA deputy administrator for port operations, disagreed, saying the items already are imports since the consignee is not a freeport locator and that his address is in Bataan. The consignee was identified as Noel Moog. Albano said the cell phones lacked permit from the National Telecommunications Commission. He added that the items already fell under the jurisdiction of Subic Customs since Moog was a port user.
The cell phones had been shipped back to Hong Kong through Fedex (Federal Express). On whose authority the items were resent to their point of origin will be investigated by the task force.
Villar said investigation of the incident has begun. He added that they had summoned Sam Bautista, supposedly the clearance operations manager of Fedex, and other Subic Custom officials to shed light on the issue.
Task Force Subic has yet to post personnel at Subic Bay International Airport because it is still reviewing an agreement among SBMA, Fedex and BOC.
Benny Kho, acting deputy director for the task force, said a total of 190 personnel of Task Force Subic had been dismissed.
Villar said they only need around 50 personnel to do the job.
“We need new or fresh personnel here to help us in our anti-smuggling drive, they [old personnel] may have been already eaten by the system, what I want here is fresh people,” he added.
-- Anthony Bayarong -- Manila Times
The recommendation was made on Thursday, or a day after it was reported that 15 boxes of brand-new cellular phones worth P22 million had disappeared while allegedly in the custody of Zaldy Almoradie, Subic special deputy collector.
The high-end cell phones, according to Erol Albano, Subic deputy collector for operations, had been declared as communication equipment and were valued at only P48,000. He said the cell phones were worth P22 million.
The issue on the missing items came up at a press conference organized by Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority to formally welcome Villar as the new head of Subic Task Force. The forum turned out to be a faceoff between Albano and Almoradie. Almoradie explained that the cell phones cannot be placed under the jurisdiction of Customs since they were not yet considered as imports.
Ferdinand Hernandez, SBMA deputy administrator for port operations, disagreed, saying the items already are imports since the consignee is not a freeport locator and that his address is in Bataan. The consignee was identified as Noel Moog. Albano said the cell phones lacked permit from the National Telecommunications Commission. He added that the items already fell under the jurisdiction of Subic Customs since Moog was a port user.
The cell phones had been shipped back to Hong Kong through Fedex (Federal Express). On whose authority the items were resent to their point of origin will be investigated by the task force.
Villar said investigation of the incident has begun. He added that they had summoned Sam Bautista, supposedly the clearance operations manager of Fedex, and other Subic Custom officials to shed light on the issue.
Task Force Subic has yet to post personnel at Subic Bay International Airport because it is still reviewing an agreement among SBMA, Fedex and BOC.
Benny Kho, acting deputy director for the task force, said a total of 190 personnel of Task Force Subic had been dismissed.
Villar said they only need around 50 personnel to do the job.
“We need new or fresh personnel here to help us in our anti-smuggling drive, they [old personnel] may have been already eaten by the system, what I want here is fresh people,” he added.
-- Anthony Bayarong -- Manila Times
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