A CACHE of stored electronic data shows how the tentacles of the tobacco industry penetrated and manipulated intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.Johann van Loggerenberg, former head of the crime-busting unit at the SA Revenue Service, said: "It documents precisely how the interests of informants‚ state officials … as well as private business overlap way beyond what could be considered proper."In some instances their activities were clearly unlawful."Van Loggerenberg and former Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay have thrown a spotlight on complicity between state officials and private business in criminal activities in their book‚ Rogue: The Inside Story of Sars’s Elite Crime-busting Unit.Van Loggerenberg and other managers were forced to resign after being implicated‚ wrongfully they said‚ in a scandal over a "rogue unit" operating at Sars. They wrote the book to present their side of the story.The book documents secretly recorded conversations with handlers‚ industrial espionage‚ t...
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