A Dutch court on Friday imposed the maximum fine of $1.28 million dollars on the oil trading company Trafigura for illegally exporting highly toxic sludge that ended up dumped in Ivory Coast and that was eventually linked to the deaths of 16 people and thousands of illnesses in 2006. The court also found the company guilty of covering up the hazardous nature of the waste, including high levels of caustic soda, sulfur compounds and hydrogen sulfide, when it first tried to unload it in Amsterdam....
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