Another high-end Computers discovered by POM X-ray

            The POM X-ray Field Office has foiled another attempt to smuggle 225 units of high-end Lenovo desktop computers worth Php 12 Million.

           

            Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales, who represented to the media the seized items together with the XIP Head Collector Lourdes Mangaoang last January 9, 2009, said the Lenovo desktop PCs were consigned to Hanjo Corporation which was suspended and charged for the attempted smuggling of Lenovo laptop computers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport last year.

“Actually, this is the same consignee who misdeclared 192 Lenovo laptops last year as laptop bags, and now they have tried the same thing for the desktops,” he said

            The forty-footer shipment was placed under alert upon its arrival at the Port of Manila by the POM X-ray Field Office and after its consignee failed to file the necessary import entry within the 30-day reglamentary period, it has been subjected to x-ray inspection which validated the x-ray operatives for the issuance of alert order and the subsequent abandonment by its consignee of the shipment since the contents of the container van were more than just power cord as declared on the import manifest

“The images showed boxes of different sizes and configurations which are definitely suspicious since only one item is being declared by its consignee in the manifest”, said X-ray Field Officer Renato Palgan

            During an actual examination it revealed 225 units of Lenovo Keyboards and mouse and 340 pieces of power cords.

            Commissioner Morales also presented to the media a PEZA-bound forty-footer container van consigned to S & S Industries Development, Inc. from Korea which was declared to contain PVC scraps but was found to contain Php 3 Million worth of chemicals when subjected to x-ray inspection. Although there were indeed PVC scraps near the door of the container van, x-ray images showed that more than half of the shipment were undeclared, comprising of 18 drums of Di-Octyl Phthalate chemicals and 68 sacks  of various sizes containing unidentified white powdery substance.

“We are going to submit samples of the white powder for laboratory test to find out its true content”’ Palgan added.

Pursuant to Custom Memorandum Order 17-2008, PEZA bound shipments are subjected to x-ray inspection.