Illicit Tobacco Investigator is Charged with Spying for China

Editor’s Note: See also What is the Chinese Government’s Involvement in the Global Trade in Illicit Tobacco?

From: Reuters via South China Morning Post

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Lee went from being an operative in the world’s top spy agency to investigating counterfeit cigarettes in Hong Kong, sources told the South China Morning Post in January.

He later went on to set up his own company to do similar work, before joining auction house Christie’s. According to a security source with several decades of experience in the sector, Lee worked for Japan Tobacco International after he left the CIA in 2007.

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