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 from 2 to 2006. There the ship attempted to have the waste processed in Amsterdam, but "Amsterdam Port Services BV", the company that had contracted to treat the waste, refused after its staff reported an incredible smell coming from the waste, which sickened several workers. A company specializing in the disposal of chemical waste, Afvalstoffen Terminal Moerdijk in nearby Moerdijk, tendered for the disposal of the waste (based on the samples it received) for €500,000. Instead, the material was pumped back into the "Probo Koala", which then left port on , appearing on in Côte d'Ivoire where Compagnie Tommy, which