Svenske oljechefen: Vill inte dras in i något liknande igen
Genèvebaserade oljehandelsjätten Gunvors korrupta affärer i Kongo-Brazzaville och Elfenbenskusten gjordes under en period av mycket snabb expansion då bolaget inte hade ”de rätta procedurerna på plats”. Det skriver koncernchefen och storägaren, svenske Torbjörn Törnqvist, i ett mejl till TT.
”Jag vill inte att bolaget blir inblandat i något som liknar Kongofallet någonsin igen. Det gör inte heller våra anställda eller våra ägare”, skriver Törnqvist vidare.
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Wikipedia (en)
Gunvor Group Ltd is a global commodity trading company registered in Cyprus, with its main trading office in Geneva, Switzerland. Gunvor also has trading offices in Singapore, the Bahamas, and Dubai, with a network of representative offices around the globe. The company operates in the trade, transport, storage and optimization of petroleum and other energy products, as well as having investments in oil terminal and port facilities. Its operations consist of securing crude oil upstream and delivering it to market via pipelines and tankers.
The company, which was founded in 2000, is the fourth largest crude oil trader in the world after Glencore, Vitol, and Trafigura. The company was co-founded and controlled by Gennady Timchenko together with Torbjörn Törnqvist (after whose mother the company is named); however, due to United States sanctions, Timchenko sold his stake in the company to Törnqvist in March 2014.Gunvor's largest single supplier of crude oil was once Russia, though the company now originates most of its crude oil from the Americas, with less than 13 percent coming from Russia. It also trades African, Asian, and South-American crude and is active on all continents. In 2011, Gunvor was trading less than 20% of Russia's seaborne oil.
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