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Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon and Port of Cebu District Collector Edward De La Cuesta on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, led the inspection of over P255 million worth of smuggled goods seized on various dates by Bureau of Customs (BOC) operatives from the Intelligence Group (IG) under Deputy Commissioner Danilo Lim and Enforcement and Security Service (ESS) under Director George Aliño at the Port of Cebu. According to Biazon, he wanted to physically inspect the 162,240 bags of smuggled rice in 312 20-footer container vans to check the preparations for its scheduled August 7, 2013 auction. The smuggled rice to be auctioned next month is part of the 1,169 container vans of illegally imported rice from Vietnam that were seized by IG operatives in Cebu in April this year. One lot, comprising 50 container vans of the smuggled rice were earlier auctioned by the BOC raising P14.5 million in additional revenues for the government. However, the scheduled auctions of the remaining rice were deferred