Trafigura

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd. is a Singaporean‑based multinational commodities company, founded in 1993, with major regional hubs in Geneva, Houston, Montevideo, and Mumbai. The company trades in base metals and energy. It is the world's largest private metal trader and the second‑largest oil trader, having built or purchased stakes in pipelines, mines, smelters, ports, and storage terminals. Trafigura was formed by Claude Dauphin and Eric de Turckheim in 1993, but quickly split off from a group of companies managed by Marc Rich. Trafigura has been named in or been involved in several scandals, most notably the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump (which left up to 100,000 people with skin rashes, headaches, and respiratory problems) and the Iraq Oil‑for‑Food scandal.