Revealed: A tobacco tycoon thrived in war-torn Iraq ...Kuwait

KEY POINTS: Tabra's career started in the 1990s with help from Saddam Hussein's eldest son. For years, he supplied the knock-off cigarette factories with cheap tobacco, fake packaging, counterfeit tax stamps, and other materials. To do so, he ran a network of offshore companies and other fronts, many protected by high-level officials. Tabra has partnered with known smugglers and fraudsters in multiple countries.   The charges levied against Iraqi cigarette baron Waheb Tabra read like an action movie script: Cutting deals with the Islamic State, brawling with Iraq’s speaker of parliament, and smuggling over a hundred million dollars in cash out of the country

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