Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros has filed a bill seeking to penalize government officials and employees found conspiring with agricultural smugglers with life imprisonment.
Senate Bill 2205 seeks to amend Republic Act 10845 or the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act by adding the following as acts considered as large-scale agricultural smuggling and economic sabotage:
approving or granting any license, export declaration, clearance or permit, knowing that the same is manifestly unlawful, inequitable or irregular, whether or not there is pecuniary interest or material benefit or advantage on the part of the public employee or officer. “There… has been no prosecution of government officials for facilitating and abetting acts of agricultural smuggling that amount to large-scale economic sabotage. As a result, smuggling activities continue with impunity,” the senator said in her explanatory note.
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