ASEANEWS | Paper Edition-Today’s Headline: MANILA – Govt execs linked to agri smuggling
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FORMER politicians tried to stop the filing of charges against personalities involved in the smuggling of agricultural products, a Department of Agriculture (DA) official told a Senate hearing on Monday.
Agriculture Assistant Secretary Federico Laciste Jr. testified during the resumption of the Senate Committee of the Whole’s inquiry into the rampant smuggling of vegetables from China.
enate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto 3rd on Monday presided over the committee’s second hybrid hearing on vegetable smuggling and the efforts of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to stop it.
Laciste said that in 2021, while his office was preparing charges against the vegetable smugglers, he received phone calls from government personalities urging him to drop the cases.
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