The Casalee File | Dispatches

Duration: 3'08''

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A major Berkshire-based tobacco company, The Casalee Group, now called Defco, has been secretly at the heart of the arms trade and breached international sanctions in many of the deals it has done. Mines sold to Iraq killed and maimed British soldiers in the Gulf War.

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