ILLICIT TOBACCO TRADING
August 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLGOVERNMENTS and international organisations have highlighted tobacco smuggling as one of the largest illegal drains on their tax revenues. An international conference has brought law enforcement professionals together with health officials to fight this problem. Keith Nuthall reports.LAST month, the European Commission returned to a New York court to continue an expensive legal battle to prove that three tobacco companies, Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds and Japan Tobacco, were liable for damages regarding lost revenues cause by their alleged ...
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