2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump to settle the class action suit against it. Law firm Leigh Day, which represented the Ivorian claimants, was found guilty of negligence after £6 million of the settlement funds were embezzled. In 2002, Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex began to accumulate significant quantities of coker gasoline, containing large amounts of sulfur and silica, at its Cadereyta refinery. By 2006 Pemex had run out of storage capacity and agreed to sell the coker gasoline to Trafigura. In early 2006, Pemex trucked the coker gasoline to Brownsville, Texas, where Trafigura loaded it aboard the Panamanian registered tanker "Probo Koala", which was owned
2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump not have caused deaths, no matter how poorly it was handled by a third party. The company contends that the people of Abidjan, especially those living near dumps, suffered from a lifetime of exposure to toxic substances, not from their actions. The Probo Koala had its cargo rejected here by Amsterdam Port Services BV, and was to be charged €500,000 in nearby Moerdijk. On it offloaded a liquid waste in Abidjan, paying around €18,500 for its disposal. According to the City of Amsterdam's report, before it dumped the waste in Abidjan, the "Probo Koala" was in port in the Netherlands