Illegal tobacco trade | Smoking out illicit cigarette kingpins

JOHANNESBURG - Tax Justice SA  says it welcomes a vital legal breakthrough against illicit tobacco traders stealing billions of rand from South Africa.

Several cigarette manufacturers have failed in their urgent bid to interdict the SA Revenue Service against installing CCTV cameras at their warehouses.

Now these companies - including Carnilinx, which is owned by self-confessed tobacco smuggler Adriano Mazzotti - will be monitored to determine the true volume of cigarettes they produce.

Yusuf Abramjee from Tax Justice SA discussed what this means and what is likely to happen going forward for the illicit tobacco trade.