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LME finds 'irregularities' in several nickel bags at a warehouse​


March 17 (Reuters) - The London Metal Exchange (LME) on Friday postponed the resumption of nickel trading during Asian hours by a week to March 27 after it found nickel that failed to meet contract specifications at an LME warehouse.

The move is another blow to the world's oldest and biggest industrial metals market, which had been counting on a restart of Asian trade to boost liquidity in a contact that has been struggling since a nickel crisis a year ago.


The LME said it had cancelled nine nickel warrants - an ownership document for metals placed in an LME-approved warehouse - at one warehouse facility, without naming it.

"The exchange has received information that a number of physical nickel shipments out of one specific facility of an LME-licensed warehouse operator have been subject to such irregularities," the statement said.

The announcement further undermines trust in the global nickel trade after trader Trafigura last month alleged that it discovered "systematic fraud" in shipments that did not contain nickel and begun legal proceedings against Indian businessman Prateek Gupta and his companies.


"We do not own any of the nine warrants that have been invalidated by the LME," Trafigura said. There is no connection with Trafigura's legal action against Gupta either, it added.

A spokesperson for Gupta has said that they were preparing "a robust response" to the allegations.

As each warrant equals about 6 tonnes, 54 tonnes were affected. The LME said the non-conformant warrants represent 0.14% of live nickel stock in its warehouses.

The 146-year-old LME said the issues with nickel related to bagged nickel briquettes, which were found to not have the correct weight.

It did not name the warehouse or its location.

The bags in question were at a warehouse owned by Access World in Rotterdam and contained stones instead of the nickel, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The LME declined to comment on the Bloomberg report and Access World did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.


The exchange said it had no reason to believe that any other LME facility was affected, but still called on all warehouse operators to undertake inspections of warranted nickel. To give them time to do that, it is postponing the reopening of Asian trading.
 

It Turns Out That JPMorgan Bought the Nickel That Turned Out to Be Stones​

By Joe Wallace
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At the port of Rotterdam in November.PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW/REUTERS

JPMorgan Chase owned bags of material kept in a Dutch warehouse that were supposed to contain nickel but turned out to be full of stones, people familiar with the matter said.

The London Metal Exchange said last week that sacks thought to hold 54 metric tons of nickel in an unnamed warehouse had failed to comply with its standards. The bags were in a shed in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, The Wall Street Journal and other outlets reported. The problem: They contained stones instead of a silvery metal used in steel and electric-vehicle batteries.

The LME didn't disclose the name of the company that believed itself to be the owner of nickel briquettes valued at $1.3 million at current prices. The firm was JPMorgan, according to the people, some of whom said the bank first bought the material several years ago.

The company that controls the warehouse, sprawling logistics firm Access World Group, was owned by miner and trader Glencore PLC at the time. In a statement, Access World said it is inspecting "warranted bags of nickel briquettes at all locations" and that it believes the issue to be "an isolated case and specific to one warehouse in Rotterdam."

Access World, rather than JPMorgan, is likely to face pressure to foot the bill because it is responsible for checking metal on entry and keeping it safe while it is in the shed. The LME has said it is working with the operator to find out what went wrong.

Wall Street banks aren't as active in physical commodity markets as they were a decade ago, when companies such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group shipped oil on tankers, stuffed metal into warehouses and shuttled sugar between continents. New regulations brought in after the 2008 financial crisis and a stretch of calm markets encouraged banks to pull back from trading commodities.

Still, JPMorgan remains a big player in metals, trading copper, aluminum, zinc and others on the LME as well as precious metals like gold.

JPMorgan was a major trading partner of China's Tsingshan Holding Group, and led discussions with other banks after a blowup in the metal giant's nickel trades spawned a crisis on the LME last year.

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It Turns Out That JPMorgan Bought the Nickel That Turned Out to Be Stones

JPMorgan Chase owned bags of material kept in a Dutch warehouse that were supposed to contain nickel but turned out to be full of stones, people familiar with the matter said. The London Metal Exchange said last week that sacks thought to hold 54 metric tons of nickel in an unnamed warehouse had [f
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Another trading house has been stung after buying a cargo supposedly containing nickel that turned out to be full of near-worthless rubble.

The latest example, detailed in lawsuits in London and Singapore, is separate from the $600 million alleged fraud against Trafigura Group that shocked the trading industry earlier this year, but it involves several of the same companies.

The revelation that the problem of non-existent nickel is more widespread will be another blow to confidence in the scandal-prone metals trading industry.

The Trafigura case has spawned several lawsuits, while in March the London Metal Exchange discovered that 54 tons of "nickel" held at a warehouse in Rotterdam and owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. was actually just bags of stones. ...
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Another metals trader says it has been hit by a nickel fraud | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee | Exposing the long-term manipulation of the gold market

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It's almost like the whole World economy has been running as a fraud...

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You guys might laugh, but for the past thirty years or so, I have been saving all my change in heavy glass liquor bottles. I think they're a half gallon each - mostly Bacardi bottles. Some Jose Cuervo. I always have two in rotation - one for pennies and another for nickels, dimes, and quarters. I fill them and store them in the basement and start another. I have dozens of them. No idea what to do with them.

A few years ago, we were having an inclement weather day so I dumped one of them out onto the dining room table. I separated them and stacked them neatly and added it up. If I recall, it was a little over $430. But it took forever! I think I'm at the point of needing one of those coin sorters.
 
CiscoKid said:
You guys might laugh, but for the past thirty years or so, I have been saving all my change in heavy glass liquor bottles. I think they're a half gallon each - mostly Bacardi bottles. Some Jose Cuervo. I always have two in rotation - one for pennies and another for nickels, dimes, and quarters. I fill them and store them in the basement and start another. I have dozens of them. No idea what to do with them.

A few years ago, we were having an inclement weather day so I dumped one of them out onto the dining room table. I separated them and stacked them neatly and added it up. If I recall, it was a little over $430. But it took forever! I think I'm at the point of needing one of those coin sorters.
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just fill 5gal buckets n seal them off with a lid....let your family tote them out when your dead....just put them on a strudy floor area....thats my plan.....problem is i dont do much retail anymore to get change
 
I'm not sure I could lift a five gallon bucket filled with nickels, dimes, and quarters.
 
I generally just stack $100 boxes. I got to a certain number of boxes and kinda stopped doing it. I may start again though.
 
LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Indian businessman Prateek Gupta asked a London judge on Tuesday to lift a freezing order on his personal and business assets because he said commodity trader Trafigura failed to disclose full information when it demanded the freeze.

Geneva-based Trafigura filed a lawsuit against Gupta in February, alleging seven trading companies that Trafigura said are controlled by him carried out "systematic fraud" over nickel cargoes.

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Gupta asks court to lift freezing order in Trafigura nickel fraud case

Indian businessman Prateek Gupta asked a London judge on Tuesday to lift a freezing order on his personal and business assets because he said commodity trader Trafigura failed to disclose full information when it demanded the freeze.
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Not about nickel but related to Trafigura.

BRUSSELS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Global commodities trader Trafigura said on Wednesday it was setting aside $127 million to cover a possible U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) fine to end a probe into "improper payments" by the company in Brazil roughly a decade ago.

The Geneva-based company is also facing charges in Switzerland for alleged bribery in Angola.

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