JOINT elements of the Bureau of Customs–Enforcement and Security Service (BoC-ESS) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) raided on Friday three warehouses full of fake cigarettes and cigarette raw materials worth at least P.5 billion in Meycauyan City, Bulacan.

Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña ordered the raid following intelligence reports that dutiable and prohibited goods were being stockpiled in three warehouses in Block 4 Lot 2, Block 4 Lot 2B, and Block 2, Lot 8, Panply Marketing Warehouse in Muralla Industrial Subdivision, Meycauayan City.

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