IMPORTED cheap cigarette topped the list of most smuggled products in the country, according to a Bureau of Customs (BoC) official.

Customs Assistant Commissioner and concurrent spokesman Vincent Philip Maronilla on Tuesday said unscrupulous importers paid as much as P3 million per 40-footer container of cigarettes in exchange for its facilitation and fast release at the Customs ports.

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