The country’s most luxurious cars — including two smuggled Bugatti Chirons — were registered not through the government’s new digital platform, but through an obsolete Land Transportation Office (LTO) system that should have been decommissioned two years ago, investigators have confirmed.
At the heart of the controversy is the LTO’s handling of online registration through its Land Transportation Management System (LTMS), which was designed to tighten safeguards but has instead become mired in loopholes and disputes with the Bureau of Customs (BOC).
