Swedish Match reveals 'snus bribe' sum

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  • Jan
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    • Oct 2008
    • 439

    Swedish Match reveals 'snus bribe' sum

    It looks like the bastard just wanted to build up a little nice retirement nest and there was nothing personal
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    Tobacco producer Swedish Match claimed on Friday it was offered the opportunity to pay €60 million ($78 million) to thwart new EU tobacco legislation in a scandal that has cost Europe's top health official his job.
    "I can say that those are the amounts we are talking about, and I'd also like to stress that for us the amount of money does not matter," company spokesman Patrik Hildingsson told AFP.

    Health and consumer commissioner John Dalli said he had been asked to resign on Tuesday after he was cited in a tobacco-linked influence peddling fraud probe.

    The European Commission announced his resignation on Tuesday "with immediate effect" following an investigation by OLAF, the EU's anti-fraud office, into a complaint by Swedish Match.

    The Maltese commissioner has maintained his innocence, claiming he is the victim of a tobacco lobbying campaign to block tough new rules to make smoking less attractive.

    In February, Dalli oversaw proposals that would tighten regulations on the use of flavouring in tobacco, which would have included non-tobacco products such as snus, or Swedish snuff.

    Snus is a moist powder tobacco originating from dry snuff. Though its sale is illegal across the EU, it is manufactured and used in Sweden, which has an exemption, and Norway, which is not an EU member.

    Hildingsson said the alleged €60 million bribe to a Maltese businessman with links to Dalli would have been paid in two installments, with €10 million due before new legislation was enacted and the remaining €50 million to be paid when the new rules were in place.

    http://www.thelocal.se/43932/20121019/
  • bill77.017
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    • Jul 2010
    • 2279

    #2
    60 million euro!!! FFS, he wasn't looking for much was he? Fair play to SM for standing up to and exposing them. Bunch of corrupt chancing b***ards.

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    • Skell18
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      • May 2012
      • 7067

      #3
      Dirty bastard!

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      • CzechCzar
        Member
        • Jun 2010
        • 1144

        #4
        Filthy pig

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        • daz
          Member
          • May 2012
          • 268

          #5
          eu commissions blackmailing and taking bribe's what a shock NOT welcome to the EUSSR, make way for the gravytrain.

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