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What we may be witnessing is the unfolding of a crime.

Nothing less than large-scale agricultural smuggling.

Nothing less than economic sabotage.

Bilyong-bilyong pera ang pinag-uusapan.

Muling binuksan ni Sen. Risa Hontiveros ang usapin ng maanumalya

o manong pag-angkat ng asukal ng Department of Agriculture

at Sugar Regulatory Administration noong isang buwan

Sa panibagong ekspose, tiba-tiba Ania ang kinikita ng tatlong sugar traders

na pinabara naman noong DA

dahil masyadong mahal ang benta nila ng asukal sa industrial users.

Pwede naman Aniang makabili ang mga kumpanya ng asukal

sa halagang 25 pesos kada kilo sa Thailand.

Pero binibentahan sila ng asukal ng tatlong trader

sa halagang 85 pesos kada kilo na mahigit tatlong beses na mas mahal.

Ayon kay Hontiveros, labis din ang alokasyong ibinigay sa tatlong importer

10,000-20,000 metric tons lang ang alokasyon kada importer sa mga dating import order

Pero sa 440,000 metric tons na inangkat, 240,000 metric tons ang ibinigay na alokasyon sa isa

at TIG 100,000 metric tons naman ang dalawa.

At kung susumahin, aabot sa 14 billion pesos ang kikitain namano ng tatlong sugar traders.

Parang tumama ka ng 50 times sa super loto nang hindi ka man lang tumataya.

Giit ng tagapagsalita ng Agriculture Department,

wala silang alam kung gaano kalaki ang kinita ng tatlong sugar traders.

Ngunit iginagalang naman nila ang posisyo ni Hontiveros.

Mas maganda siguro makakatulong kung lahat tayo ay tingnan natin

kung what's the best side for this situation right now

which is to lower down yung ating inflation rate.

Pinaiimbestigahan ni Hontiveros ang isyo at sabi niya,

kung maaari, suspendihin na si DA Senior Undersecretary Domingo Pangaliban

na nag-aproba ng importasyon.

Nauna ng inamin ni Pangaliban na minadali niya ang importasyon,

sa utos na din umano ng Pangulo.

Sa isyo naman ng smuggled sugar, nanindiga ng DA na pwede itong ibenta sa Kadiwa Centers.

Kinwestiyon kasi ng ilang stakeholders kung bakit pagkakakitaan ng pamahalaan

ang ipinuslit na asukal.

So we're looking into the memorandum agreement dun sa disposition of sugar

dun sa Bureau of Customs na baka pwedeng sa donation.

So kung idodonate ito sa Department of Agriculture,

from agriculture to other institution, maybe FTI,

then from FTI going to Kadiwa.

Ginagawa pa natin yung mechanics na para wala tayong leakages pagdating sa ganyan

dahil yung asukal na pumasok ay smuggled na kinortiscate natin.

Ayon sa Sugar Regulatory Administration, sumasa ilalim na sa sanitary test ang mga puslit na asukal.

Lahat po na dumarating po sa atin whether smuggled or hindi po, tinitest ng DA yun.

If it is not fit for human consumption, it will be destroyed.

Target ng DA na maibenta sa Kadiwa ang smuggled sugar simula sa susunod na linggo.

Jervis Manahan, ABS-CBN News.