TRAFIGURA BEHEER BV and three individuals referred to the Federal Criminal Court
Bern, 6.12.2023 - On 5 December 2023, the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland filed an indictment in the Federal Criminal Court against three individuals and against the commodities trading company TRAFIGURA BEHEER BV. A former Angolan public official is charged with having accepted, between April 2009 and October 2011, bribes of more than EUR 4.3 million and USD 604,000.- from the TRAFIGURA Group, in relation to its activities in the petroleum industry in Angola. In addition, a former intermediary and a former senior executive of the TRAFIGURA Group are charged with being involved in this corruption scheme. Finally, TRAFIGURA BEHEER BV is charged with failing to take all reasonable and necessary organisational measures to prevent the payment of these bribes. For the first time, the Federal Criminal Court is called upon to judge the criminal liability of a company for bribery of foreign public officials.