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Feb 2023
19m 32s

The $577 Million Nickel Fraud

PATRICK BOYLE
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Send us a textThe commodities trading firm Trafigura has announced that it has been the victim of a “systematic fraud” and has to write-down over half a billion dollars after discovering shipments of nickel that it purchased from firms controlled by Prateek Gupta failed to contain the metal.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3 ... Show More
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