Cigarette manufacturers including Adriano Mazzotti’s Carnilinx fear intelligence obtained by surveillance cameras
installed by Sars to spy on their operations could land in the lap of British American Tobacco SA (BAT SA) – a rival company owned by billionaire businessman Johann Rupert.
The concerns of the manufacturers, affiliated with the Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita), are contained in papers before the Pretoria High Court, where Fita members are applying for an order for the introduction of new regulations promulgated by Sars last year, to be declared illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional.
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