Senator JV Ejercitoon Mondayprodded the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Agriculture to put behind bars smugglers and their protectors in government. The senator asked why there were no agricultural smugglers jailed two years after the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Law was passed. "I think we need to send a strong signal to the smugglers that we are not soft on them and we are determined to haul them off to jail because under Republic Act 1085, or the anti-agricultural smuggling law, in which I am one of the principal authors, large-scale agricultural smuggling is declared as an economic sabotage with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment," he said in a statement. Ej...
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