
Trafigura and their lawyers Carter Ruck had been pursuing an ongoing libel case against the BBC over a news story from on the case that aired in May 2009.
In the story "Dirty Tricks and Toxic Waste in the Ivory Coast", the BBC's Newsnight programme stated: "It is the biggest toxic dumping scandal of the 21st century, the type of environmental vandalism that international treaties are supposed to prevent.













