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Mugabe link to illicit cigarette trade

Publish date: 06 January 2014
Issue Number: 559
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Zimbabwe

Relatives of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe are being linked to illegal tobacco smuggling networks suspected of bringing more than R500million in contraband through South Africa's borders.

The Sunday Times reports that Zimbabwe-based Savanna Tobacco is owned by a prominent Zimbabwean businessman, Adam Molai, who is married to Sandra Mugabe, one of Mugabe's nieces. The products have been linked to a huge tobacco smuggling operation whose base in South Africa was shut down in 2010. The frequency of the busts, the methods used and the quantities of illegal Pacific cigarettes found have led sources close to the investigations to claim that Savanna has been centrally involved for at least four years. Full Sunday Times report

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