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Trafigura

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Trafigura says Swiss prosecutors in bribery case were on a political ‘crusade’

    The company argues that the case was based on flimsy and unreliable testimony

    Michael Wainwright, former Trafigura chief operating officer, right, and his lawyer Daniel Kinzer arriving at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on Monday
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Swiss prosecutors demand 4-year jail sentence for former Trafigura COO

    Michael Wainwright accused of being ‘linchpin’ of scheme to bribe Angolan official

    Michael Wainwright  leaving the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switerzerland on December 2 2024
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Trafigura used dozens of ‘high risk’ middlemen, court told in bribery case

    Prosecutors allege commodity trader paid more than €5mn in bribes via third parties to Angolan government official

    Exterior of the federal criminal court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, where the case is being heard
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Large payments did not raise ‘red flags’, says former Trafigura finance chief

    Commodity trader had robust compliance checks, Pierre Lorinet tells Swiss court in bribery trial

    Pierre Lorinet
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Ex-Trafigura COO ‘forgot’ about compliance committee, court hears

    Mike Wainwright takes stand in bribery trial

    Mike Wainwright, former chief operating officer of Trafigura
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Trafigura loses attempt to have star witness struck from bribery trial

    Company is first commodity trader to face trial for corruption in Switzerland

    Mike Wainwright
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Adani Group
    $20bn wiped off Adani corporate empire after bribery charges

    US corruption charges against one of India’s richest men sent shares in his businesses reeling

    People in New Delhi, India, protest against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Swiss prosecutors accuse Trafigura of paying €5mn in bribes to Angolan official

    Unsealed indictment alleges the company’s late founder, Claude Dauphin, masterminded the scheme

    Trafigura Geneva offices
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Trafigura warns of up to $1.1bn loss over Mongolian oil scandal

    Commodity trader is taking action against a ‘small number’ of insiders involved in the alleged fraud

    incoming chief executive Richard Holtum
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Trafigura signals new era as gas and power boss ascends to CEO

    Trading house appoints 39-year-old former British soldier who has risen rapidly within the business

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Trafigura set to name Richard Holtum as chief executive

    Trading house to announce as early as next week that head of gas, power and renewables will succeed Jeremy Weir

    Richard Holtum speaks on stage at the Gastech Conference in Houston, Texas
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Mining
    US intervened in Congo mine sale to Chinese arms group

    US officials encouraged state miner Gécamines to review sale to a subsidiary of Chinese defence company Norinco

    An excavator is used at the bottom of Congolese state mining company Gécamines’ Kamfundwa open pit copper mine on January 31, 2013
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Trafigura pays $55mn US fine in case alleging market abuse

    Commodities trading house was accused of manipulating a fuel oil benchmark and possessing ‘improperly obtained’ inside information

    Trafigura  logo
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    LexCommodities
    Hope of a commodities boom rests in inflation, not China Premium content

    Tipping point for commodity investment is more likely to be perceived structural inflation, especially in the US

    The Trafigura logo
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Trafigura profits slide more than 70% in sign that market volatility is ending

    Drop follows period of record earnings for biggest commodity traders after Ukraine war disrupted energy sector

    The Trafigura logo
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    News in-depth
    Trafigura’s Jeremy Weir: trader-in- chief seeks to draw a line under corruption scandals

    The 59-year-old Australian has diversified the commodities house but has had to deal with a legacy of misconduct

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Top commodities traders dismiss IPO route after bumper profits

    Executives at Vitol, Trafigura and Mercuria say banks and export credit agencies have never been so keen to lend to them

  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Trafigura finance chief and top director to exit in shake-up

    Christophe Salmon and Jose Maria Larocca will retire in latest overhaul at commodities trading house

    Trafigura signage at an office lobby
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Trafigura bribery details laid out in $127mn guilty plea agreement

    US prosecutors say trading house paid Brazilian officials to keep its business with state oil group

  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    Commodities
    Commodity traders sitting on up to $120bn in cash after years of record profits

    Gas and power trading has overtaken oil as the biggest source of profits in the sector, report finds

    Worker outside a Vitol oil storage tanks
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Shipping
    Red Sea vessel diversions spur fuel tanker rates and diesel prices

    The latest Houthi attack — on a vessel working for Trafigura — has tightened fuel tanker and oil products markets

    The Marlin Luanda was attacked last Friday
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Prateek Gupta
    Asset freeze on Prateek Gupta over nickel fraud allegations in Trafigura case to remain

    Early success for commodity trader in $600mn legal battle with Indian businessman

    Prateek Gupta
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Trafigura triples payouts to staff to record $5.9bn

    Commodities trader also flags slowdown as energy crisis unleashed by Russian invasion of Ukraine eases

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Trafigura charged in Switzerland over alleged Angolan bribery

    Prosecutors say commodities trading group bribed a government official between 2009 and 2011

    Trafigura’s logo seen in an office reception
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Trafigura accused of multimillion trading cover-up in London court

    Alleged nickel fraud involved $600mn writedown after cargoes found to contain far less valuable materials

    Indian businessman Prateek Gupta
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