ABSTRACT
This chapter offers narrative of how the Trafigura Corporation reportedly created lethal toxic waste by processing a cheap oil product from Mexico and, with the support of key sections of the Ivorian state, offloaded that waste in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in August 2006. It tracks the decision-making by Trafigura agents and presents the waste's path from off the coast of Gibraltar and Malta to sites around Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The chapter demonstrates that Trafigura employees used 'implicatory denial' to organise the dumping in the face of warning signs that the results may be potentially damaging to the health of the local population. The major shareholder-owners of Trafigura were heavily involved in the day-to-day running of the corporation and were personally involved in the state-corporate crime of toxic waste dumping. The Ivorian state's role is crucial in understanding the mechanics of what has to be understood as a state-corporate crime. Other European and African states rejected the waste.
