Alberto David Lina (born April 23, 1948) is a Filipino businessman and former government official who served as Commissioner of Bureau of Customs.
I’ll never forget 21 because that was the day when I opened a new chapter in my life.After being fired, he established the Airfreight 2100 (Air21), his own freight forwarding company.
He later controls over 19 companies by 2012, Airfreight 2100, DOS-1 or 21 (the acronym for Dynamic Outsource Solutions, Inc.), and GO21 (a messenger service using bicycle),[7] U-Freight Inc. and U-Ocean Inc.[8] He is also have ventures including Burger King Philippines (where he is chairman and a partner of PLDT chairman Manny V. Pangilinan and the Jollibee group), Waste and Resource Management (WARM), now defunct Mail and More, Corporate Air and Shopinas, an e-commerce or internet trading outfit, also now defunct.
[2][11] In April 23, 2015, he returned to the post,[3][4][10] and promised reforms,[8] In August 24, 2015, President Noynoy Aquino orders the Customs to stop the physical inspections of balikbayan boxes unless X-ray and K-9 examinations give rise to suspicions that they contain prohibited items.
[12] On the Senate hearing last September 3, Lina went apologized to the inconvenience brought about the alleged opening of balikbayan boxes by Customs personnel.
[14] Lina run for Governor of Laguna in 2001 under KAMPI to succeed his brother Joey, who has been appointed as Secretary of Interior and Local Government.