{"id":100842,"date":"2017-05-03T03:31:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100842"},"modified":"2017-05-03T03:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:31:46","slug":"customs-bureau-turns-over-php15-m-worth-of-seized-fireworks-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/03\/customs-bureau-turns-over-php15-m-worth-of-seized-fireworks-to-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs bureau turns over PHP15-M worth of seized fireworks to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_96371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96371\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12002972_1654518838129226_1115366630099390235_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96371\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12002972_1654518838129226_1115366630099390235_n.png\" alt=\"The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has turned over four containers of China-made firecrackers worth PHP15 million to the Philippine National Police (PNP). (Photo: Bureau of Customs PH\/ Facebook)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12002972_1654518838129226_1115366630099390235_n.png 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12002972_1654518838129226_1115366630099390235_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12002972_1654518838129226_1115366630099390235_n-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has turned over four containers of China-made firecrackers worth PHP15 million to the Philippine National Police (PNP). (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/BureauOfCustomsPH\/photos\/a.1654518821462561.1073741825.1653473014900475\/1654518838129226\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\"> Bureau of Customs PH\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has turned over four containers of China-made firecrackers worth PHP15 million to the Philippine National Police (PNP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe turned over the seized items to the PNP for proper disposal so these won\u2019t find its way to the market,\u201d Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service-10 (CIIS-10) Chief, Alvin Enciso, said in a news release issued Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Enciso said the shipments were seized for misdeclaration and lack of import permits.<\/p>\n<p>The cargoes, consigned to Spherebox Marketing and Pro-V Marketing Unlimited Co., were initially declared as drinking glasses, cups, reams of bond paper, and sanitary napkins but were found to be fireworks and firecrackers by Customs authorities upon inspection.<\/p>\n<p>The importers were identified as Quingtian Zhangchao Import &amp; Export Co. Ltd., Yiwu Suge Import &amp; Export Co. Ltd., and Guangzhou Kind Sam Import &amp; Export Co. Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection was prompted by an alert order from BOC\u2019s Intelligence Group Deputy Commissioner Teddy Raval and CIIS director Neil Estrella.<\/p>\n<p>The firecrackers were received last April 29 by officials of the PNP Police Regional Office 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has turned over four containers of China-made firecrackers worth PHP15 million to the Philippine National &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":96371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[4665,7983],"class_list":["post-100842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bureau-of-customs","tag-philippine-national-police","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}