Solon requests House subpoena of individuals suspected of smuggling onions, other goods

Authorities seized more than a thousand sacks of illegally imported white onions during an inter-agency operation by the PNP National Capital Region Police Office-Regional Special Operations Group (NCRPO-RSOG), Bureau of Customs and Bureau of Plant Industry at a stock room in Divisoria, Manila on December 3, 2022.

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MANILA, Philippines —  As a House of Representatives panel begins its probe into rampant agricultural smuggling, a lawmaker named several individuals allegedly behind the illicit importation of millions worth of farmed goods who he said should be questioned by the committee.

Rep. Horacio Suansing Jr. (Sultan Kudarat, 2nd District) requested the House to summon 10 traders, brokers and facilitators during a hearing of the ways and means committee on Monday to question their alleged involvement in “widespread, large-scale” smuggling.

Suansing Jr. asked the committee to issue a subpoena for Michael Ma, Lujene Ang, Andrew Chang, Beverly Peres, Manuel Tan, Leah Cruz, Jun Diamante, Lucio Lim and Gerry Teves.

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