COTABATO CITY -- Police authorities, responding to a tip from a concerned citizen, recovered abandoned boxes of smuggled cigarettes awaiting to be transported to unknown areas beside the Rio Grande de Mindanao here on Saturday. Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza, police regional director for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), said a total of 74 boxes of smuggled cigarettes believed to be from Malaysia or Indonesia was estimated to cost P1,480,000. Nobleza said a civilian alerted police operatives in the city about the contraband. Police immediately sent troops to verify the report and discovered the contraband covered by tarpaulin near the Rio Grand...Keep on reading: Cops seize P1.4-M in smuggled cigarettes in Cotabato City