Jump to full article: CBC News (ca), 2003-04-08
Intro: Private eye Larry Johnson says big tobacco companies are like "the conductor of the orchestra" when it comes to tobacco smuggling. "They're moving the product," he says. "They're moving the money. They're helping orchestrate it, helping build new markets."
Duty-free cigarettes from Miami arrived in Aruba's duty-free port, just 125 kilometres from the Colombian coast.
The European Union's lawsuits say the green light to smuggle cigarettes came from the Miami offices of RJ Reynolds International. Larry C. Johnson is a CIA agent turned private eye. He's been hired by lawyers for the European Union and the provinces of Colombia to prove some extraordinary allegations. . .
Documents obtained by Disclosure suggest RJR International not only knew where the cigarettes were going; it was directing the traffic.
In one marketing document it points out that "contraband channels are expanding: Aruba to Colombia."
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