Australia announced on Tuesday a financial aid package of A$135 million ($87.4 million) for two Nyrstar-owned smelters, a subsidiary of Trafigura ... The company attributed this decision to elevated energy costs and reduced processing fees ... ....
Commodity trader and shipowner Trafigura has been named in past scandals in Angola, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Myanmar and Mexico, and one of its employees is now implicated in Indonesia's oil-import fraud scandal as well.