The Philippine Anti-Smuggling Group in Central Visayas (PASG-7) petitioned the court last Friday afternoon not to grant the motion filed by a warehouse owner to quash the search warrant used in the confiscation of 18 secondhand vehicles.In a petition filed at the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 9, Acting PASG-7 chief Ricardo Collantes said the warehouse owner, Michael Nengasca, failed to show proof that the 18 vehicles were legally imported into the country. He said their agents asked, but were not provided evidence by Nengasca that the vehicles were covered by the exceptions to the ban on importation of secondhand vehicles. Collantes said their agents verified the information given to them about the vehicles which are reportedly South Korean models and that the burden of proof doesn't lie with them. He pointed out that there is no manufacturing plant for South Korean vehicles in the country. Collantes also said that while Nengasca is the registered owner of the company, his business only covers the sale of motorcycles and their spare parts. Nengasca's lawyer, Noel Archival, asked the court to grant them a five-day extension to show the papers for the 18 vehicles. The businessman's other lawyer, Jessie Capoy, failed to show the registration papers and was castigated by RTC Branch 9 Judge Geraldine Faith Econg, who told him to present the papers in last Friday's hearing. In his motion, Archival asked the court to give them five days starting Monday to produce the Official Receipt and the Certificate of Registration of the vehicles. | 
