"Plausible deniability" for BAT execs as investigation into the murky world of SA's tobacco industry digs deeper

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For the past year and a half a team at UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism has looking into activity in the South African tobacco industry. The result of those efforts is a cracking eight series Podcast called Smoke Screen (on auddy.co). In this interview, the Bureau's international editor James Ball joins Alec Hogg with a taste of what's in Smoke Screen's Episode 5 - and explain how executives at multinational protagonist British American Tobacco have leaned on the boardroom ploy of "plausible deniability". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12 Oct 2021 9AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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