00:00Some former customs commissioners admitted to the hearing of the House Quad Com
00:04that there will be a tara system or that there will be a delay in the process of imported shipment.
00:11Among those involved, the billion-peso shabu
00:15that is being controlled by a Davao Mafia, according to a former customs officer.
00:22Jun Veneracion was there.
00:24At the 14th hearing of the House of Representatives Quad Committee,
00:30the more than 11 billion-peso shabu that was contained in the Bureau of Customs of the previous administration was discussed.
00:37The tara system or the delay in the process of imported shipment was mentioned.
00:46Former customs commissioners Nicanor Fael Don and Isidro La Pena admitted
00:51that there was a tara system during their time and they were forced to stop it.
00:55During Fael Don's time, they had a study that 27 billion-peso shabu was lost by the government every year
01:04due to the tara problem.
01:06It is based on 30,000-peso tara for every incoming shipping container.
01:11Did you admit that there was a tara system during your time?
01:15Did it reach you?
01:18I did not receive it, but I believe it reached me.
01:24The question is, Congressman, is the tara system still in force?
01:29A former customs official was arrested for going to the hearing.
01:33As of now, Your Honor, I have no information about a tara system ongoing with the Bureau of Customs.
01:40You know, this is infuriating.
01:42I think you're lying to us.
01:44You know you have been there for quite a time.
01:47If the commissioners know about that, why don't you know?
01:52As a chief of the Legal Service of Customs, they have no case related to the tara.
01:58From our records, Your Honor, we are trying administrative cases.
02:03I'm not asking what your job is, Atty.
02:06And Your Honor, please.
02:08Wait a minute. I'm still talking.
02:11I'm about to move you to site you in contempt.
02:14To clarify if there is still a tara system today,
02:18House Quadcom will call the current Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs,
02:22Bienvenido Rubio.
02:24The one in charge of the case of the billion-peso shabu shipment,
02:27said Quadcom,
02:29are the fall guys who were arrested,
02:31like the former Customs Intelligence Officer, Jimmy Guban,
02:35and the negotiator, Mark Taguba,
02:37to cover up the masterminds.
02:40If, however, these people are necessary fall guys
02:44in order to cover up for the truth,
02:48then we have committed a grave injustice,
02:51which we are now compelled to rectify.
02:55When was the shabu shipment approved by the Duterte administration?
02:58It was not the Customs Commissioner who has control over the agency,
03:02but it was Guban, who called it the Davao Mafia.
03:05Would you know?
03:06Because you've mentioned about certain individuals.
03:09Composing the Davao Mafia.
03:11Before, Your Honor, I experienced during the time of Commissioner Paildon,
03:16that there was an instruction directly to me
03:20to release the container because there was a call
03:24from Pulong in Manz.
03:28Then the Commissioner called the director to get off that container.
03:33I would like to request the resource person
03:37who gave the instructions to him.
03:39Your Honor, to our director.
03:41Congressman Pulong Duterte and attorney Manz Carpio
03:47are also being arrested.
03:49Vice President Sara Duterte's husband.
03:51But before, Duterte and Carpio were the stars.
03:53Duterte said,
03:55he did not know Guban
03:57while Carpio said,
03:59politics is behind the allegations.
04:01For GMA Integrated News,
04:03Jun Vedera Show, 24 hours.
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04:10Jun Vedera Show, 24 hours.
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