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NBI confiscates luxury vehicles

ALL ILLEGAL. Being right-hand-drive vehicles, these expensive SUVs found in a Mandaue City warehouse are illegal. How did they pass customs? Why did it take the NBI to catch them? (SUN.STAR FOTO/AMPER CAMPAÑA)

TWENTY-FIVE right-hand drive (RHD) luxury vehicles worth P12 million from Japan were seized from a warehouse in Mandaue City last Friday.

The importation of such vehicles is banned under Republic Act 8506.

The Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Isuzu sports utility vehicles (SUVs) apparently passed customs authorities because the seals of their container vans were already broken.
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