Customs agents seized four 40-foot containers containing smuggled Peking duck, pork loin and choice cut chicken and pigeon parts worth an estimated P25 million, which arrived at the Manila International Container Port (MICP).
Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales said the shipments, which came from China, were misdeclared as food ingredients. The shipments arrived January 22 and February 11 and were seized recently.
Jarius Paguntalan, Intelligence and Enforcement Group (IEG) OIC, said the customs bureau had received a tip that a large shipment of poultry products was arriving. He said Reach World Logistics, Inc, the forwarding company that brought in the shipments, failed to present pertinent import documents from the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Authorities have yet to determine who imported the items.
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