PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur – Authorities confiscated 20 master cases of alleged illicit cigarettes valued at around P1.2 million in an anti-smuggling operation late Sunday night in Malangas, Zamboanga Sibugay. Maj. Shellamie Chang, spokesperson for the Police Regional Office 9 (PRO-9), said the raid was conducted in Purok Bagong Silang, Barangay Poblacion. The seized products lacked Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) tax stamps and graphic health warnings. READ: P3-M suspected smuggled cigarettes seized in Zamboanga City A 37-year-old male laborer from Mabuhay town was arrested in the operation. The suspect and the confiscated contraband were brought to the Malangas Municipal […]...Keep on reading: P1.2-M ‘smuggled’ cigarettes seized in Zamboanga Sibugay