Two decades later, Amsterdam headquartered Trafigura remains privately owned by French citizen, Dauphin and over 700 senior managers.
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Trafigura remains privately owned by French citizen, Dauphin and over 700 senior managers.
Neither Trafigura nor its executives accepted any conviction, nor made any admission of liability or guilt as part of this settlement.
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Through the Trafigura Foundation, Dauphin supports development programs in over 30 countries.
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The order was later changed and Carter-Ruck said there was "no question of Trafigura seeking to 'gag' the media from reporting parliamentary proceedings".
Lukoil joins Shell, Glencore, Vitol, Trafigura, Daimler, BP and Reliance.
The law firm stressed there had "never been any question of Trafigura applying for an injunction that had as its purpose the prevention of publication of any matter arising in Parliament".
The huge trading and logistics operation, backed by a savvy business-intelligence unit, has a global presence in a vast array of commodities that far exceeds that of rivals such as Cargill or Trafigura.
Their use caused controversy last month when the Guardian said it had been prevented from reporting a question by Labour MP Paul Farrelly about an injunction obtained by oil company Trafigura and its lawyers.
He left to cofound Trafigura in 1993.
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After years of allegations about it having mishandled waste on board the Probo Koala within the port of Amsterdam, and subsequent alleged dumping in the Ivory Coast, Trafigura agreed to settle with the Dutch Prosecution Service in November 2012.
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Tanzania BP, an oil trading joint venture owned by the government and a subsidiary of commodity trader Trafigura, has been suspended from selling fuel for three months after refusing to do so because of a fall in oil prices, the energy regulator said.
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