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SOME <\/strong>P1.2 billion worth of fake cigarettes and production equipment on Thursday were confiscated while 155 trafficked persons were rescued in a raid by agents of the Philippine National Police – Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) at a warehouse in Bgy. Moranquillo, San Rafael, Bulacan.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PNP-CIDG director Brig. Gen. Nicolas D. Torre III said a<\/strong> Chinese national named Wu Qilong alias \u201cRonald\/Tony,” 30, was arrested during the operation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Torre said Bulacan has been tagged as an alleged main hub for the production of counterfeit cigarettes being distributed in the province and its nearby areas, including Metro Manila.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Operatives of the CIDG- Anti-Fraud and Commercial Crime Unit (AFCCU), Provincial Field Unit – Bulacan and the San Rafael police, together with representatives from the Bureau of Internal Revenue Region 5 (BIR 5) and Caloocan led by Wrenolph Panganiban, in coordination with the Police Regional Office 3 (PRO3) stormed the fake cigarette production facility on the strength of BIR Mission Order dubbed \u201cOplan Olea.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Confiscated were New Berlin Cigarette finished 116,700 packs and 1,750,000 sticks; New Two Moon menthol cigarette finished 182,000 packs and 5,000 sticks; Dunston Red cigarette finished product 100; Modern cigarette finished product 1,100 packs and 22,500 sticks; RGD Red cigarette finished product 100 packs; Champion Mild menthol cigarette finished product 234 packs; Richman Royal cigarette finished product 800 packs; Carnival Menthol cigarette finished product 620 packs; Fort Menthol cigarette finished product 370 packs; Soda Red cigarette finished product 1,300 packs; tobacco small 373 sacks; tobacco big 47 sacks; tobacco 178 boxes raw; cigarette filter 5,244,000 sticks; cigarette paper 1,005 rolls;<\/strong> filter paper 800 rolls; cigarette foil 659 rolls; thousands of lid blank raw materials; thousands of ream\/cartoons;\u00a0 hundreds of cigarette pack plastic roll wraps;\u00a0Cannon Menthol Cigarette finish product 150 packs;\u00a0 45 glue containers; cigarette making machines; and cigarette packing machines.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rescued during the raid were 155 persons illegally working in the manufacturing plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the authorities, the raided illegal manufacturing plant can produce 12.9 million of sticks per day or an estimated value of P45 million a day. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The arrested Chinese national will be charged with tax evasion and violations of Republic Act 8293 or the Intellectual Property Code and RA 9208 or the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003 as amended by RA 10364 also known as the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BY KEVIN GALANG SOME P1.2 billion worth of fake cigarettes and production equipment on Thursday were confiscated while 155 trafficked persons were rescued in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nizd47u8-1024x980.png\")
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