How do you know whether or not the pack of cigs you just bought are legal?

You have probably never even thought twice about it.

According to New24, the illicit cigarette trade is of the most underworld-dominated trades, and was the cause for the murder of the Fancy Boys gang leader on Saturday:

News24 understands that Shamiel Eyssen, 45, who was gunned down in Bishop Lavis on Saturday, was killed because he was owed money in a major cigarette deal.

Either some or all of the money he was owed was not paid to him and the businessman who was meant to pay it is now on the run, according to sources.

Eyssen’s murder is also apparently linked to a major battle for control of the club security business in Cape Town. He was allegedly linked to an older faction which previously dominated the scene, and which is now being toppled by a newer faction.

News24 learnt that the newer faction departed for Johannesburg yesterday with four busloads of members leaving Cape Town, to take over clubs in Jozi “previously dominated by the older faction.”

Watch out, Egoli.

The leaders, on the other hand, are flying of course. Clearly, those involved with the “club security” industry are also linked to the trade of illegal cigarettes:

According to sources, a cigarette delivery truck was recently hijacked in Woodstock.

They say the businessman, now said to be on the run, was meant to pay for the stolen loot, but either did not pay at all, or only paid a fraction of what he was supposed to.

Eyssen was therefore, according to sources, killed, so that he would no longer have to be paid.

He had recently been released from jail.

It’s scary to think how much goes on without us knowing.

[source:news24]