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Trafigura: the 10-day unravelling of an alleged $500mn fraud

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Commodity trader alleges the ‘controlling mind’ behind nickel scheme repeatedly tried to stall for time.

27 February, 2023 by Harry Dempsey, Leslie Hook and Robert Smith in London

A heart attack, a handwritten note and 1,000 shipping containers full of unknown material — the details of one of London’s biggest commodity fraud cases read like a thriller.

Singapore-based trading house Trafigura has accused metals tycoon Prateek Gupta and