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Fake cigarettes financing terror | With commonwealth law enforcement, Rohan Pike

Fake cigarettes financing terror | With commonwealth law enforcement, Rohan Pike

Update: 2025-09-26
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How do criminals exploit borders, trade systems, and corruption to move their money? For most of us the idea of ‘fake’ cigarettes and illicit trade really came to the fore during the Covid Lockdowns when even law abiding South Africans found themselves looking in the strangest places for their fix. Since then the conversations about illicit trade, the financial Action Task Force greylisting of South Africa for among others terror funding and funny money has become an almost daily conversation.



Phumi Mashigo speaks to Rohan Pike, a commonwealth law enforcement expert on border controls, foreign bribery, trade crime, money laundering and corruption to compare how South Africa is doing in contrast with other countries faced with similar challenges. The Burning Platform
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Fake cigarettes financing terror | With commonwealth law enforcement, Rohan Pike

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