Taking the stand after the Auditor General was Francis Alfaro, a Customs Examiner at the Customs and Excise Department.
The Commissioners questioned him about the procedures that should take place when assessing the import duties that the Government should be paid when assets were being disposed of. He gave them a walk-through of that procedure, and then, Chairman asked him about a tax assessment that was attached as part of the sale of former Deputy PM Patt's Toyota Tacoma. When Alfaro was asked about this assessment, he made it clear, that it wasn't produced by the Customs and Excise Department. Here's that conversation:
As viewers may be aware, Ruperto Vicente, the Manager of the Vehicle Care Unit, has admitted to the Commissioners that he prepared this assessment because Customs would not.
