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Reporter's memo on the criminal records of the companies Trump just handed licenses to trade Venezuelan oil
Public Citizen · 2026-01-09
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Along with well-known energy oil giants such as Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, two little-known but influential European energy trading firms are </span><a href="https://x.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/2009603887221834160?s=20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">among the 17 energy companies meeting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with President Trump and top White House officials today. These firms, based in Geneva and Rotterdam, stand to reap massive benefits from the Trump administration’s Venezuelan coup. Media reports establish that commodity trading firms <strong>Vitol</strong> and <strong>Trafigura </strong></span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-08/trump-baits-big-oil-to-venezuela-as-patriotic-mission-cvx-xom-cop"><span style="font-weight: 400;">received licenses from the Trump Administration</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to trade Venezuelan oil. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These two financial commodity trading powerhouses, which trade billions of financial contracts on global markets and control physical assets as well, have troubling track records of misconduct and wrongdoing, with each company paying more than $100 million in criminal and civil settlements and penalties.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trafigura is a privately held global commodity trader with primary operations in Geneva, Switzerland. Trafigura owns and controls physical energy infrastructure, which it utilizes to maximize returns for its financial energy trading operations. In the United States, Trafigura has an “indirect interest” </span><a href="https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/filelist?accession_number=20240823-5213"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wolverine Fuels which operates coal mines in Utah and Colorado, and Impala Terminals’ Burnside Terminal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> located on the Mississippi River in Darrow, Louisiana. The Burnside Terminal is a major coal exporting facility. In November 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorized Trafigura to acquire </span><a href="https://www.ferc.gov/media/e-15-ec24-114-000"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a fleet of fossil fuel power plants</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, including</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 520 MW gas-fueled facility in Bridgeport, CT.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">179 MW of gas-fired facilities in and around West Springfield, MA that are scheduled to retire by June 1, 2025.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Newington 606 MW gas facility in Portsmouth, NH.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Essential Power OPP, a 383 MW gas power plant in Lakewood, NJ.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rock Springs, a 773 MW natural gas-fired facility in Rising Sun, MD.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamilton Liberty, an 870 MW gas-fired power plant in Bradford County, PA.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hamilton Patriot, an 870 MW gas facility in Montgomery, PA.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lakewood, a 237 MW gas power plant in Lakewood, NJ.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rumford, a 275 MW natural gas generation facility in Rumford, ME.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 273 MW gas-fired power plant in Tiverton, RI.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2024, </span><a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/swiss-commodities-trading-company-pleads-guilty-foreign-bribery-scheme"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trafigura pled guilty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to criminal violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for its decade-long “scheme to pay bribes to Brazilian government officials to secure business with Brazil’s” Petrobras. Pursuant to the plea agreement, </span><a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1346006/dl?inline"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trafigura paid a criminal fine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of $80,488,040 and additional forfeiture of $46,510,257.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Separately, in June 2024, the </span><a href="https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8921-24"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered Trafigura to pay a $55 million civil penalty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to settle charges that it unlawfully traded gasoline futures while in possession of material nonpublic information it knew had been misappropriated; for manipulating U.S. fuel oil benchmarks; and unlawfully exploiting forced non-disclosure agreements with current and former employees that dissuaded cooperation with federal investigators.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol is a privately held financial commodity trading company with its primary incorporation in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is one of the largest traders of electricity, natural gas, oil and gasoline in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol has investments in more than 850,000 barrels a day of refining capacity worldwide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol was forced to pay </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/file/1346651/dl?inline"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$135 million under a 2020 Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for its role in bribing Brazilian officials at the state-owned oil company Petrobras to secure lucrative contracts. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol paid an additional </span><a href="https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8326-20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$95.7 million penalty in 2020 to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for corruption and market manipulation.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2024, Vitol was forced to pay </span><a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-50-million-settlement-vitol-and-sk-part-ongoing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$50 million for manipulating gasoline prices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in California.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2024, </span><a href="https://www.utilitydive.com/news/vitol-ferc-caiso-market-manipulation/703740/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol paid $2.3 million to settle allegations by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it engaged in anticompetitive behavior</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in California’s power market.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol paid a </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-cftc-settles-position-limit-violation-charges-against-vitol-2024-08-14/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$500,000 penalty in 2024 to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for violating</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> position limits.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vitol was </span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ba9754e3-6f4e-4455-b6be-c6c6edf6b853"><span style="font-weight: 400;">one of the largest traders of refined petroleum from the Russian Federation in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, contributing to its “reputational risk.”</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further reading: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.citizen.org/article/congress-must-stop-trumps-venezuelan-oil-takeover/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Citizen Report: Congress Must Stop Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Takeover</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Statement: Big Oil’s White House Meeting </span></li>
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