TACLOBAN CITY — Authorities seized alleged smuggled cigarettes worth P3.25 million and arrested three suspects during a joint entrapment operation in Basey, Samar, on Tuesday, Aug. 4, as part of an intensified campaign against the illicit tobacco trade. The operation took place in Barangay Amandayehan and was carried out by operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group Regional Field Unit 8–Regional Special Operations Team (CIDG RFU 8-RSOT), in coordination with the Basey Municipal Police Station, the Regional Special Operations Team–Regional Maritime Unit 8, the Regional Intelligence Division/Regional Special Operations Unit 8–Team Samar, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Revenue […]...Keep on reading: Samar authorities seize P3.25-M smuggled cigarettes, arrest 3