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BY PRINCE GOLEZ
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February 10, 2018
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MANILA – Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III asked the Bureau of Customs to sell seized smuggled luxury cars in public auctions.
Thirty seized smuggled luxury vehicles worth P61.63 million were simultaneously destroyed at the ports of Manila, Davao and Cebu during the 116th founding anniversary of the Customs last Tuesday.
“Unlike cigarettes or drugs, which have no good intrinsic value to humans and which must be destroyed when confiscated, cars and other manufactured items have economic value, and luxury cars particularly have great value to serious car collectors,” Pimentel said.
Proceeds from the public auctions may be used to help victims of natural disasters and other people in need, he said.
“Let us not waste the energy, resources and intellectual effort consumed in the making of these luxury cars,” said the senator.
President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the destruction of the smuggled luxury vehicles – which included Lexuses, BMWs, Mercedes Benzes, Audis, Jaguars, and Corvette Stingrays – in a bid to stop their illegal importation.
“This smuggling has been going on. It’s more than a century old but this kind of racket has been going on again and again. Well, it has to stop,” Duterte said in a speech./PN
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