{"id":76859,"date":"2026-06-03T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/76859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:15:18","slug":"geneva-trader-gunvor-raided-in-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/76859\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva trader Gunvor raided in corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 3 June 2026 06:36\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/692e61ad04b3d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Geneva headquarters of commodities trader Gunvor have been searched by federal investigators over suspected corruption of foreign public officials.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General confirmed the raid took place in May, after Swiss NGO Public Eye reported on an opaque oil contract signed in Gabon in 2024 with a parallel payment system to reward African intermediaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gunvor has rejected the account, saying it has never seen such a contract and that the criminal proceedings target unknown persons rather than the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland has already convicted Gunvor twice for corruption &#8211; over deals in Congo and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire in 2019, and in Ecuador in 2024. A third case would deepen scrutiny of Geneva&#8217;s commodities trading hub.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 3 June 2026 06:36 The Geneva headquarters of commodities trader Gunvor have been searched by federal investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[3166,3172,3173,3164,197,3171,3169,65,3175,3168,94,3167,3165,3170,1202,3163,3177,3176,1878,41,3179,17,3178,3174,3162,3161],"class_list":["post-76859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-anglophone-radio-station","tag-broadcast","tag-butcher","tag-english-radio","tag-europe","tag-expat","tag-fm","tag-geneva","tag-geneve","tag-internet-radio","tag-lausanne","tag-local-news-geneva","tag-local-radio","tag-media","tag-news","tag-radio-frontier","tag-ski-news","tag-ski-update","tag-snow-report","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-news","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-news","tag-whats-on","tag-world-radio-switzerland","tag-wrs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116685892901061005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}