MANILA, Philippines --- Since 2016, why has there been no accused smuggler convicted and imprisoned? Both Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Sen. Cynthia Villar wondered about that on Tuesday as the Senate resumed its agricultural smuggling investigation. Sotto, who is leading the hearing as chairman of the Senate Committee of the Whole, expressed dismay over the "zero conviction rate" among suspected smugglers. "So, we can go on record. From 2016, up to the present day, have we imprisoned any person --- either importer or broker, or whoever ---who you have sued for large-scale agricultural smuggling as mentioned in the law mentioned by Sen. [Cynthia] Villar?" Sotto aske...
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