Two Harley Davidson motorcycles and household furniture worth P20 million were seized at the Port of Manila over the weekend while another shipment of 225 Lenovo computers were declared forfeited to the government.

But Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr., head of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group, blew his top on learning that two unidentified Customs employees of the X-ray Inspection Project allegedly escorted the illegal cargo.

Villar said the two immediately exited Gate 6 of the Port Area upon seeing PASG staff around dawn on Saturday.

?These Customs men might have thought that our anti-smuggling agents were fast asleep at 3 in the morning,?

Import documents showed the motorcycles were consigned to Customs broker Victorino Guilles Jr.

The big bikes, valued at more than P1 million each in the local market, were aboard a 40-footer container van.

Villar said a warrant of seizure and detention against the shipment was issued on Friday after receiving reports that the motorcycles were hidden under 95 pieces of household furniture that arrived from the United States on board S/S OOCL Ningbo.

X-ray Inspection chief Ma. Lourdes Mangaoang said the 225 Lenovo computer sets in a 40-footer shipping van from China arrived in Manila consigned to Hanjo Corp., the same firm involved in the smuggling of 192 Lenovo 2005 laptops at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in November last year.

She said field officer Renato Palgan found the shipment?s importer failed to file a formal entry within 30 days.

Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales said the air cargo was described as laptop bags.

He said a Lenovo desktop set would fetch P45,000 in popular computer shops. Joyce Pangco Pa?ares and Joel E. Zurbano