SUBIC BAY FREEPORT: The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) banned three brokers permanently from doing business in Subic in connection with the foiled attempt to smuggle more than P40-million worth of expensive liquor last December. The SBMA’s Law Enforcement Department seized 1,321 boxes of expensive liquor from a closed van that was about to leave the Freeport last December 24, and from a 40-footer container van parked at the Subic Seaport Terminal. Acting on a tip from an informant, SBMA security personnel, intercepted a closed van and a Nissan Patrol SUV at the sentry while attempting to smuggle the contraband from the Freeport. Similarly, SBMA security police flagged down a Fuso van of BCR Trucking driven by Julio Flores, 41, and his companion Marvin Arcega, 46, carrying boxes of champagne without the necessary documents. A follow-up operation by SBMA operatives on a white Isuzu Giga cab with the markings “Sinfa Logistics Inc. parked at Subic Seaport Terminal in Boton Wharf yielded other contraband items.

Source: Manila Times January 08, 2018 13:18 UTC