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NAIA Customs confiscates guns, ammo in Pasay warehouse
Customs finds the firearms cache abandoned inside the DHL warehouse

Customs seizes P1.4M worth of marijuana hidden in snack packs
The Kush marijuana is hidden in tortilla chips packaging

DOJ summons Jacky Co over P1.8-B shabu shipment
The Department of Justice has directed suspected Chinese drug lord Jacky Co and 16 others to respond to the criminal complaint filed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency

LOOK: Cebu port officials discover luxury vehicles in car part shipment
Customs officials find a Mercedes Benz, an Alfa Romeo, a Porsche 911, and a Range Rover Evoque in a shipment declared as containing only one piece of car body

DOJ indicts Davidson Bangayan over rice cartel
The justice department also indicts the trader for unlawful use of pseudonym ‘David Tan’
Duterte says shabu in magnetic lifters 'pure speculation'
President Rodrigo Duterte backs the assertion of Customs Chief Isidro Lapeña – that there was no shabu in the magnetic lifters found in Cavite

Chinese linked to P6.4-B smuggled shabu denies bribing BI to leave PH
Richard Tan's lawyer says his client was not informed by the DOJ that an Immigration lookout bulletin was already issued against him

Trillanes on draft Gordon report: Death for poor, lifestyle check for Paolo Duterte
Senator Panfilo Lacson says the initial findings in Senator Richard Gordon's draft report are 'lacking and wanting'

No proof linking Davao Group to P6.4-billion shabu shipment – Gordon
The Senate blue ribbon committee wraps up its probe into the shabu smuggled from China, and will now focus on the corruption in the Bureau of Customs

Gordon to summon judge for failing to order destruction of 890 kilos of shabu
'Mandatory 'yun eh. He's violating the law. In fact, the Supreme Court should file charges against him,' says Senator Richard Gordon on San Juan City Regional Trial Court Judge Jovencio Gascon

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Trillanes says Duterte's verbal attack shows he's in panic
Si President Duterte ay nagpa panic dahil malapit na mabunyag ang mga illegal na gawain ng kanilang pamilya says Senator Antonio Trillanes IV

Duterte says Trillanes’ evidence vs son, son-in-law is ‘trash’
In a speech before soldiers in Davao City the President once more defends Paolo Duterte and Manases Carpio against allegations of involvement in smuggling

Trillanes wants Davao councilor summoned to P6.4-B shabu probe
Why would a councilor from Davao City be dealing with some brokers? And this Small Abellera is known in Davao City to be very close to Paolo Duterte says Senator Antonio Trillanes IV

No evidence vs Paolo Duterte in smuggled shabu case – Gordon
Hearsay sabi sabi Papaano naman yun? That s unfair says administration ally and Senate blue ribbon committee chair Richard Gordon

'Middleman' in P6.4-B shabu says Paolo Duterte just an 'acquaintance'
UPDATED Kenneth Dong the alleged middleman in the P6 4 billion smuggled shabu from China says he met the presidential son in 2008 but they are not close

TIMELINE: How P6.4-B worth of shabu was smuggled into PH from China
Government agents seize the contraband in a warehouse in Valenzuela City 3 days after it left the Manila International Container Port

Paolo Duterte a 'smuggler'? Trillanes releases documents anew
This comes after presidential son and Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte was implicated in a House probe into the P6 4 billion shabu shipment from China

Escudero hits BOC for 'slow' response to smuggled shabu
[Kapag] gramo ng shabu nanlalaban parati pinapatay Ito P6 4 billion worth na sobrang ingat nyo says Senator Francis Escudero questioning why charges have yet to be filed

Legislators grill Faeldon, Customs on 3rd consecutive day
Legislators – this time during a House ways and means committee hearing – continue grilling Customs officials over how billions of shabu made it past the bureau

Duterte to be 'fair' when deciding Faeldon's fate
President Rodrigo Duterte says he wants to read the final report on the shabu shipment from China before deciding whether or not to fire Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon

PH seeks US help in tracing source of smuggled guns
The guns smuggled through the Mindanao Container Terminal have serial numbers which could be traced to their real owner says a customs official

Smuggled from US: Gun parts seized at Cagayan de Oro port
UPDATED The gun parts are hidden in two tractors and a second hand Harley Davidson motorcycle as well as mixed with tools inside the container van

Chinese smuggling endangers rare Philippine turtles
These critically endangered turtles are sold mainly to the Chinese exotic food medicine and pet trade

Bureau of Customs: A few good men
Stronger participatory governance in the Bureau of Customs could be the best safeguard for sustaining reforms beyond 2016

Senators to DOJ: Legal stand on rice import quotas needed
Senate President Drilon says a vague interpretation of whether WTO quotas have been lifted is being exploited by rice smugglers