Trafigura in South Sudan oil row

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Trafigura in South Sudan oil row

The controversial oil trader confirms that a tanker it bought is the subject of a growing diplomatic incidentTrafigura has been accused of buying oil “looted” from South Sudan by neighbouring Sudan with which it has signed a peace treaty following decades of civil war that claimed more than 1.5m lives. The controversial oil trader, which came to global political attention when it was revealed that a ship it had chartered dumped tonnes of toxic oil slops in Ivory Coast, confirmed that a tanker of oil it bought is subject to the growing diplomatic incident.