Nickel shipped from Access World was stones, not briquettes

More than $1.2 million worth of nickel shipped from an Access World warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to the United States turned out to be bags of stones, according to people familiar with the matter.

The fraud was eventually discovered when a different warehouse company taking delivery in the US immediately became suspicious that the contents of the containers sent from Access World were far...

Published

Andrea Hotter

March 20, 2023

11:22 GMT

New York