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The RCMP knows all about this. They could have walked in and just handcuffed everybody at Imperial . . . . [The Canadian government didn't] have the guts of a field mouse to go after the executives. . . . [T]hey had Imperial cold, on the ground screaming. (But) they reached down and gave it a hand and pulled them up and said, 'Ah, give us 50 million bucks and we'll forgive and forget.'Paul Finlayson, who for 16 years was an executive at Imasco, which once owned Imperial Tobacco Canada. Finlayson said he developed the company's 1994 smuggling/tax evasion model.