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BAT calls in Harbottles after Panorama bribery allegations

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Legal Business · 2 December 2015 · 2 min read
Regulatory Harbottle & Lewis

Following a BBC investigation that alleged bribery at British American Tobacco (BAT), the FTSE 100 firm has turned to media boutique Harbottle & Lewis to ‘deal with the matter’.

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