00:00Pinasobasta, that's why some of the Balikbayen boxes were lost,
00:05which were declared abandoned.
00:07Based on the answers of some of the guests in a surveillance camera,
00:12there's another one that's being denied entry for P30,000 to complete the delivery.
00:18Maris Umali got it right.
00:24The OFW Vilma Silga became emotional
00:27when she faced the House Committee on Overseas Workers' Affairs.
00:30She was paid almost P30,000
00:34to get the Balikbayen boxes delivered to her family in the Philippines.
00:38It's hard, it's hard, it's tiring.
00:43It's a burden on the family, on the children.
00:48We have to save up so we can give it to them.
00:53That's it. We don't know where it went.
00:57I was paid almost P50,000.
01:01Then I'll have to pay P29,500 to get it to me.
01:07The committee discussed the illegal actions of the Illegal Freight Forwarder
01:12on why the Balikbayen boxes were suddenly lost by the OFWs.
01:17Our cargo was already there.
01:19That's what we were paid for.
01:21Elmer changed it for us.
01:23It was paid up to the door of our house.
01:27It turns out that the so-called Balikbayen boxes were declared abandoned
01:32and auctioned off to local freight forwarders.
01:35Then the OFWs were paid to get their Balikbayen boxes back.
01:40We still need to pay Kimunik.
01:46I paid Kimunik so I can get my boxes back.
01:51The OFW party list said
01:53that there is a dispute between some officials of the Bureau of Customs
01:59in the Auction Division and private individuals
02:03who go to auctions and corner the Balikbayen boxes
02:07that were not abandoned
02:09to be sold again to the owners of the OFWs
02:14which is of great importance.
02:16After hearing that most of the Balikbayen boxes
02:19went to Monalisa Tan,
02:22the owner of Munik Rapid Transport Inc.,
02:25an international and domestic freight forwarder.
02:28Tan's gate was only helped by the OFW
02:31who couldn't get all the Balikbayen boxes
02:33so she joined the auction.
02:35When you went to the auction,
02:37did you know that there were only a few Balikbayen boxes?
02:43Yes.
02:44How did you know about the Balikbayen boxes?
02:46The Assistant Commissioner said earlier
02:49that these are unlabeled, declared as cargo.
02:52Who told you that the Balikbayen boxes were there?
02:55Actually, my friend forwarded a BL
03:00that the cargo is in that container
03:04and I brought it with me with Ma'am Dali,
03:08how to help my friends.
03:10I will direct it.
03:11It means that Monalisa has inside information.
03:17According to the Bureau of Customs,
03:19they don't hold auctions anymore
03:21and only donate the boxes to the Department of Migrant Workers.
03:25But the Department of Migrant Workers Secretary,
03:28Hans Leo Kakda, saw a problem here.
03:29If we only pass abandoned boxes,
03:34the problem won't be solved.
03:37Which is, why are there abandoned boxes in the first place
03:42when it was already paid for?
03:45The problem won't be solved
03:47which is, the forwarding of the Balikbayen boxes.
03:53So, that's what we hope to solve.
03:55The DMW promised to help the OFWs
03:58who have to go home
03:59their Balikbayen boxes with the help of the Action Fund.
04:02Before the hearing ended,
04:04a motion was made by the Technical Working Group
04:07as part of the DMW,
04:08BOC, DTI, BOI, DOTR,
04:12OWA, and industry stakeholders
04:14to study all the issues raised during the hearing
04:17and to solve the problem.
04:19For GMA Integrated News,
04:21Maryse Umali, Naktutok, 24 Hours.
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