{"id":109099,"date":"2017-07-31T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109099"},"modified":"2017-07-31T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:51:09","slug":"customs-official-blamed-for-p6-4-b-shabu-shipment-now-in-house-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/31\/customs-official-blamed-for-p6-4-b-shabu-shipment-now-in-house-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs official blamed for P6.4-B shabu shipment now in House custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109100\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/farinasambushjuly31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109100\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/farinasambushjuly31-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as disclosed this to House reporters on Monday in an ambush interview. (PNA photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/farinasambushjuly31-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/farinasambushjuly31-768x680.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/farinasambushjuly31-1024x907.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as disclosed this to House reporters on Monday in an ambush interview. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, July 31 &#8212; The Bureau of Customs (BOC) official who allegedly failed to tag the shipment of PHP6.25 billion worth of illegal drugs from China as contraband in the BOC\u2019s computerized classification system is now under the custody of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as disclosed this to House reporters on Monday in an ambush interview.<\/p>\n<p>Fari\u00f1as said Larribert Hilario, head of the BOC\u2019s risk management office, will be appearing as a \u201csurprise witness\u201d in the House inquiry on the recent entry of a cargo from China containing PHP6.4 billion worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride, otherwise known as shabu.<\/p>\n<p>Hilario was blamed for the BOC blunder and was suspended from office after he failed to input the data in the BOC\u2019s system that the shipment contained illicit drugs, therefore failing to stop the entry of contrabands from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Fari\u00f1as said the Customs official is now \u201cunder the protective custody\u201d of House Sergeant-at-Arms Roland Detabali as authorized by Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>Yung allegedly na-suspend, nandyan na siya (Hilario). May mga testimony siya na talagang magliliwanag,\u201d Fari\u00f1as said.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal shipment was discovered on May 30 when members of the BOC and the National Bureau of Investigation personnel raided a warehouse on Aster Street in Paso de Blas, Valenzuela City, based on a tip coming from their Chinese counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>The consignee of the subject cargo carrying the shabu was identified as EMT Trading.<\/p>\n<p>The House Committee on Dangerous Drugs is scheduled to conduct a probe on the PHP6.4 billion shabu shipment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, July 31 &#8212; The Bureau of Customs (BOC) official who allegedly failed to tag the shipment of PHP6.25 billion &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[4665,20154],"class_list":["post-109099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bureau-of-customs","tag-p-6-4-b-shabu-shipment","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109099","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=109099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}