A major Zimbabwe tobacco company, with ties to President Robert Mugabe, is suspected of smuggling illegal cigarettes into South Africa in what is thought to be a bid to help boost the country’s ailing economy, reports News 24.

According to the Sunday Times, Zimbabwe’s Savanna Tobacco is owned by prominent businessman Adam Molai, who is married to Mugabe’s niece, Sandra Mugabe. And now Savanna Tobacco is thought to have moved tons of contraband into South Africa.

The company’s main brand, Pacific cigarettes, is allegedly being smuggled illegally into the country and sold mostly in Cape Town.

“In the past, Mugabe has openly supported Savanna and only a year ago accused rival company British American Tobacco of spying on Savanna and hijacking its trucks,” reports News 24.