Tobacco Wars

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Johann van Loggerenberg. Tobacco Wars

Preface

Foreword

Prologue

PART 1

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PART 2

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PART 3

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Appendix: Judge Frank Kroon’s apology

Endnotes

Additional references

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

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TOBACCO WARS

Inside the spy games and dirty tricks of southern Africa’s cigarette trade

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According to Walter, the Illicit Tobacco Task Team’s officials were also all corrupt to the core, abused her and some had made untoward advances to her. All were ‘in the pocket’ of TISA, BATSA and BAT plc: there was an unholy alliance between this task team’s key officials and BATSA, BAT plc and TISA. At one point, when I asked how it was possible that she as an attorney could associate herself with such behaviour, she said she didn’t know better and that she only really came to understand the true nature of things following discussions with me. To ‘redeem’ herself, she took it upon herself to expose what she knew. She asked me to introduce her to a journalist who, she said, should be someone I trusted completely and able to understand the tobacco industry with all its complexities.

The only person whose name jumped to mind at this stage was the financial journalist and editor of Business Times, Rob Rose. I met with Rose informally and said to him that Walter wished to meet with him and had all sorts of things to tell him. I explicitly stated they weren’t tax-related issues and that I could not be part of the discussions.25 I had little inkling of the true extent of the incestuous nature of the relations between officials of the task team, BATSA, BAT plc and TISA, and what I did know was limited to what Walter had chosen to share with me.

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