BAT bribery scam forces out senior EABL executive

The bribery claims levelled against UK’s British American Tobacco (BAT) Tuesday spread its tentacles across corporate Kenya sucking in rival Mastermind Tobacco and forcing out an East African Breweries Limited (EABL) executive.

The British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Panorama expose found that BAT paid government officials to, among other ends, stifle competitors – a claim that appears to lend credence to Mastermind’s long-running stance that the UK firm has been using underhand tactics to entrench its dominance of Kenya’s tobacco market.