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many, like pieter and francois, had worked for south africa s apartheid police force. they say theirjob was to destroy the competition for bat. south africa is a huge tobacco market. and bat controls the majority of sales 70% of the market. that s billions of cigarettes a year. there is a problem with cigarette smuggling and tax dodging in south africa, which bat claimed some manufacturers were involved in. bat said it was helping the government curb these illicit sales. but our evidence suggests bat went far beyond that. at the time, bat was pronouncing on illicit trade being a big problem in south

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