It stinks! BAT, big tobacco bosses run from corruption questions - Van Loggerenberg

The all-powerful tobacco industry has been implicated in underhand tactics that led to the destruction of a revenue service that was working in the interests of the common good. The mess left behind at the South African Revenue Service (Sars) has meant that it has been more difficult to collect taxes, which in turn has undermined the country’s economy. As ace corruption-buster Johann van Loggerenberg, a former policeman and Sars investigator who was among the victims of these dirty tricks, says: companies like British American Tobacco (BAT) and others owe South Africa an explanation. But, instead of being accountable or transparent and responding to allegations in the public domain, big tobacco has quietly closed - and effectively "shut up" - its industry organisation. In this podcast, Tobacco Wars author Van Loggerenberg chats to BizNews founder Alec Hogg about how the big boys of tobacco have swept skullduggery under the carpet. - Jackie Cameron