700 million fake cigarettes sold locally as State pledges to tackle vice

Treasury CS split tax structure for cigarettes. FILE PHOTO | NMG

About 700 million fake cigarettes were sold locally last year, with Kenya losing billions in taxes, a cigarette firm on Monday told a forum on illicit trade in Nairobi.

BAT’s Area Head of Security John Evans said corruption in government was to blame for the losses, even as the State announced a multi-sectoral agency to deal with the vice.

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