Tobacco Wars by Johann van Loggerenberg

Author:Johann van Loggerenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2019-06-20T10:29:52+00:00

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Rollex and Project Robin

Nothing better demonstrates how government officials were captured and manipulated by some within the cigarette industry than the case of Rollex and what was known as ‘Project Robin’.

In 2011 a text exchange took place between Belinda Walter and her Tobacco Task Team handler, Ferdi Fryer. Walter appeared a bit miffed about the payment someone had received after a certain ‘deal’. Fryer was at pains to explain that some of the money was meant for ‘operational purposes’ and he didn’t get much from it. Walter, on the other hand, lamented having supported the ‘deal’ in the first place. The most telling piece of the conversation, the fingerprint on the crime scene so to speak, was when Fryer sought to placate and assure Walter what a good team they made and how capable the two of them were at manipulating the director-general of National Intelligence (later renamed the State Security Agency), the National Prosecuting Authority, SARS and a few key role-players in this saga.

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