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OCCRP INVESTIGATION: BAT’s UK headquarters oversaw and financed a South African corporate spy ring
The British American Tobacco Plc logo. (Photo: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images) High-level employees from British American Tobacco’s U.K. headquarters oversaw a corporate espionage ring in South Africa, buying expensive surveillance equipment that was later used to illegally spy on the company’s competitors, leaked documents show. Allegations that British American Tobacco’s (BAT) South African unit…