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14.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT, bribes and spies in the tobacco industry

A joint investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath has unearthed thousands of leaked documents that reveal a wide-scale corporate espionage operat...

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13.09.21

Big Tobacco

Smoke Screen: BAT’s agents brokered Zimbabwe bribe proposal

A joint investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, BBC Panorama and the University of Bath reveals British American Tobacco (BAT) was linked to a conspiracy to pay a bribe of between $30...

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10.09.21

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