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Big Trouble at Big Tobacco
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November 1st, 2011

Documents About IBCS

John Richardson Ltd. Documents

OCCRP_JTIISRAEL_1.pdf - Letter from former Vice President Dave Reynolds outlining what he called a series of smuggling episodes involving Japan Tobacco partners and distributors. He cites Richardson as an example of a repeat smuggler which faced no long term consequences.
OCCRP_JTIISRAEL_2.pdf - Detailed JTI intelligence reports and correspondents outlining what investigators call examples of chronic smuggling by JTI’s Israeli distributor to Belgium and other spots in Europe. John Richardson Ltd. admitted to smuggling, the documents show.

Allegations of Obstruction

This section includes e-mails, memorandums and other correspondence surrounding allegations that JTI executives deliberately protected smuggling. Also included are a series of JTI documents detailing the extensive anti-smuggling operations by a team of JTI investigators. The investigators say they were fired because of the successes outlined in the company documents.

JTI Greece

OCCRP_JTIGREECE_1.pdf - These documents outline large scale and allegedly illegal “gray market” sales of several brands through Turkey, Greece and Iraq, including Winston and Camel. The documents also discuss shipments to Duty Free Shops and companies accused of smuggling to Montenego, Serbia, Romania, and in one instance, the United Kingdom.
OCCRP_JTIGREECE_2.pdf - This document, titled “Dawn Raid During Unexpected Tax Audit,” was created by JTI lawyers and describes a Greek government look at JTI and its distributors before a merger.
OCCRP_JTIGREECE_3.pdf - Emails and internal documents outline correspondence between JTI senior investigative team and a private investigative team hired to look into potential smuggling in Greece and the Middle East. The documents provide a glimpse at intelligence gathered by informants inside JTI distributors and related companies.
OCCRP_JTIGREECE_4.pdf - These March 13, 2010 documents outline large scale and regular shipments of JTI cigarettes to a firm accused of smuggling. The records say that the company receives the shipments, on average, every two months, and that the firm is currently a target of OLAF investigations. The investigators who reported this were fired one month later.
OCCRP_JTIGREECE_5.pdf - Correspondence between JTI and one of its private investigative firms outline information from sources within accused smugglers. Included is an order for 150 million individual cigarettes stamped with English health warnings and “Made in the United Kingdom”.