How to get away with smuggling

By William Marsden

Canada’s billion-dollar deal for big tobacco

Excerpts from this story referencing "Imperial Tobacco":

"… year of secret negotiations, Canada’s two largest tobacco companies — Imperial Tobacco Canada and Rothmans Inc. — pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting tobacco …"

"… with the Excise Act and its amendments and the ministerial regulations.”Imperial Tobacco, maker of 16 cigarette brands including Canada’s top sellers Players and …"

"… layson recalled that after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raided Imperial Tobacco’s head office in Montreal in November 2004, they contacted him because h …"

"… field as Florida and Louisiana. In a memo dated June 3, 1993, for example, Imperial Tobacco president Don Brown told a BAT executive that “until the smuggling issue …"

Canada's boom in smuggled cigarettes

By William Marsden

Gary Godelie has been a tobacco farmer most of his life, struggling to keep alive a family farm that produces what most everyone agrees is a

Excerpts from this story referencing "Imperial Tobacco":

"… s health ministry, Health Canada. “We’re making more cigarettes than Imperial Tobacco [Canada’s leading tobacco company],” boasted one Indian smuggler.All t …"

"… reserves in Quebec and Ontario.Ironically, it was a major tobacco company, Imperial Tobacco, that supplied Kahnawake with the reserve’s first cigarette making machi …"

"… d blend the tobacco,” said one smuggler who didn’t want his name used. Imperial Tobacco admitted that it sold surplus machines to the Mohawks, but claimed the com …"

"… as at record levels, the product came from the major manufacturers such as Imperial Tobacco, which is owned by British American Tobacco; RJR MacDonald, which at the t …"

Russia's cigarette king practices strategic giving

By Roman Anin

Dominant vendor sets standard for connections

Excerpts from this story referencing "Imperial Tobacco":

"… e of the world’s largest tobacco companies, Philip Morris International, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International.Last fall Russian Prime Minister Vladimir …"

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Ukraine’s ‘lost’ cigarettes flood Europe

By Vlad Lavrov

Big tobacco’s overproduction fuels $2 billion black market

Excerpts from this story referencing "Imperial Tobacco":

"… companies, Philip Morris International, Japan Tobacco International (JTI), Imperial Tobacco, and British American Tobacco (BAT), have produced billions of excess ciga …"

"… and that it actively cooperates with law enforcement to prevent smuggling.Imperial Tobacco officials declined to comment for this story. In 2008, Imperial manufactur …"