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• Paraguay Senate suspects BAT tax evasion 

Paraguay's Senate heard testimony accusing British American Tobacco of evading five million dollars in taxes, Senate sources said.

Senate President Carlos Mateo invited an investigative journalist to testify to his claims that BAT falsified Mercosur certificates of origin through its subsidiaries.

"Using false certificates, BAT imported cigarettes with preferential tariffs, evading millions of dollars," journalist Idilio Mendez told the Senate.

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