FINANCIAL SECRECY
An ICIJ Investigation
Tobacco Underground
The world’s most widely smuggled legal substance fuels organized crime and corruption, and robs governments of needed tax money.
Tobacco Underground
The world’s most widely smuggled legal substance
The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product.
By Marina Walker Guevara
Oct 20, 2008
Tobacco Underground
Resources: Tobacco Smuggling
By ICIJ
Oct 20, 2008
Tobacco Underground
eBook: Tobacco Underground
By ICIJ
Feb 27, 2010
- Working with reporters in more than a dozen countries, ICIJ is charting the frontlines of the illicit traffic in cigarettes.
- Relying on interviews with insiders and thousands of internal industry documents, reporters pieced together how smuggling played a key role in big tobacco’s strategy to boost sales and increase market share.
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