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Illicit cigarette trade threatens economy

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IT IS DIFFICULT to overstate the significance of the recent court ruling involving the taxman and some key players in the tobacco industry.

Several cigarette companies failed in their urgent bid to interdict the SA Revenue Services (SARS) against installing CCTV cameras at their warehouses.

Now these companies – including Carnilinx, which is owned by self-confessed tobacco smuggler Adriano Mazzotti – will have to heed laws enabling SARS to monitor the true volume of cigarettes they

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