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Customs NAIA continues to stop illegal wildlife smugglingCUSTOMS NAIA APPREHENDS PHP4.5 MILLION WORTH OF 1,529 LIVE…
Posted by Bureau of Customs NAIA on Sunday, March 3, 2019
The 1,529 exotic turtles were worth an estimated 4.5 million Philippine pesos on the black market — that’s about $86,750 U.S. dollars, says a Filipino passenger smuggled the turtles on a flight from Hong Kong. “The passenger may have been informed of the vigilance of Bureau of Customs against illegal wildlife trade and its penalties, thus leaving the four (4) X-Rayed luggage unclaimed in the arrival area,” the bureau wrote on Facebook.
About 87,000 people had evacuated from high-risk areas of the Philippines [ Jes Aznar/Getty Images]
