Incorrect statement about Probo Koala on leaked US embassy cable
01 September 2011
It has come to our notice that a September
2006 US embassy cable from Abidjan to departments in the US
government has been released on Wikileaks. It refers to the Probo
Koala incident.
In the cable, it states that Compagnie Tommy
was a subsidiary of Puma Energy, a subsidiary of Trafigura**.
Trafigura can confirm that there has never
been any connection between Compagnie Tommy and any Trafigura or
Puma Energy company, other than that Compagnie Tommy was appointed
to discharge the slops on board the Probo Koala. There was
absolutely no other connection to Compagnie Tommy before, during or
after the incident. Compagnie Tommy was never a subsidiary of Puma
Energy or any other Trafigura company.
** In fact, the cable refers mistakenly to a
"Tommy de Raphael Zadi Dacoury" which is a confusing aggregation of
the names of the company that illegally dumped the slops and a Mr
Dacoury Raphael Zadi, who was the Focal Point for the Basel
Convention at the Cote d'Ivoire Ministry of the Environment, Water
Resources and Forests.