Europe’s top court sent back to a lower court a dispute over immunity in a political scandal involving Swedish smokeless tobacco and millions of dollars in bribes.Read More
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In presenting Swedish Match’s 2016 fourth-quarter and full-year results, CEO Lars Dahlgren said the company was committed to being a vocal proponent of the benefits of harm reduction in the tobacco industry.Read More
Other studies show no link, says company. Read More
Swedish Match’s MRTP application offers a path for other tobacco companies.Read More
Defence lawyers of Sliema restaurateur Silvio Zammit yesterday pressed the police’s witness Gayle Kimberley on whether she was the one who came up with the €60 million figure at the heart of the Dalligate scandal. Kimberley denied it categorically, but lawyer Edward Gatt insisted on the point, reminding the young lawyer that she was testifying...Read More
Swedish Match says that it has not lied nor altered its story during meetings about the resignation of the former EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Affairs. John Dalli resigned in October, shortly before the commission unveiled its proposed revisions to the Tobacco Products Directive. According to a story in Malta Today, the transparency watchdog...Read More
A planned review of the European Union Tobacco Products Directive will proceed once a replacement has been found for Health Commissioner John Dalli, said EU spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen on Oct. 17. Dalli resigned following an investigation of a complaint by Swedish Match made in May. The EU anti-fraud office, OLAF, found evidence that Dalli...Read More
John Dalli has today announced his resignation as a member of the EU Commission, with immediate effect, according to an EU Commission press statement. Dalli informed the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, of his decision following an investigation by OLAF, the EU’s antifraud office, into a complaint made in May by Swedish...Read More
