--- title: "Farringford Foundation and its predecessor Farringford N.V." language: en canonical: https://dossiertwist.com/dossiers/trafigura/farringford-foundation/ as_of: 2026-10-16 keywords: ["Trafigura Pte Ltd","Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.","Trafigura Beheer B.V.","Farringford Foundation","Trafigura Control Holdings","TPTE Holding Limited","Swiss Angola bribery case","SK.2023.49","Sonangol Distribuidora","Petrobras","Foreign Corrupt Practices Act","CFTC","Mongolia","Lex Oil","nickel fraud","Prateek Gupta","Myra Falls","Breakwater Resources","Volare Shipping","Trafigura Nat Gas"] --- # Farringford Foundation and its predecessor Farringford N.V. - Jurisdiction: Panama (PA) - Company register: 25040243 (Public Registry of Panama) - LEI: 213800Z5SG67869MF746 **Question.** What is Farringford Foundation, who controls it, and what came before it? **Answer.** Farringford Foundation is a Panamanian private-interest foundation with no shareholders. The group names it as having decisive voting power over Trafigura Control Holdings and as the group's ultimate controlling entity. In 2023–2024 the group told a regulator that it is controlled by its council of Jeremy Weir, Pierre Lorinet, Andrew Vickerman and Mark Irwin. Until at least December 2018 the group's ultimate controlling company was Farringford N.V. of Curaçao, which a notification said no person controlled after the death of Claude Dauphin in 2015. ## Identity - Analysis: GLEIF records Farringford Foundation (LEI 213800Z5SG67869MF746) as an active Panamanian private foundation, registration number 25040243, with its legal address care of the law firm Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega in Panama City and a creation date of 20 September 2024; it declares reporting exceptions for its own parents. That date does not match the 2022 annual report, which already names the foundation as ultimate controller, or a Panamanian aggregator's 'about seven years' since incorporation, and the record does not explain the difference. The aggregator keeps the council, founder and protector behind a paywall. [src-013] [src-009] ## Control over the group - Analysis: The group's March 2026 half-year report states that the foundation has decisive voting power over Trafigura Control Holdings Pte. Ltd., the ultimate parent, without exposure or rights to variable returns. According to the Bulgarian regulator's 2024 report, Trafigura Control Holdings holds 99% of the voting rights in Trafigura Beheer B.V. and is owned by the foundation. Citing the group's application, the report describes the foundation as having no shareholders and being controlled by its council, Jeremy Weir, Pierre Lorinet, Andrew Vickerman and Mark Irwin, and concludes that it exercises indirect control over TPTE's subsidiary Trafigura Nat Gas Limited; the record has no later statement of the council's members. [src-002] [src-066] - Documented: According to the EWRC report, the members of Trafigura Beheer B.V. are Trafigura Control Holdings Pte Ltd of Singapore, which holds 99% of the voting rights, and three Jersey-registered holders: BDFH 2016 Nominee, Trafigura Trustees (Jersey) Limited and Trafigura Nominees (Jersey) Limited; Trafigura Control Holdings Pte Ltd is owned by Farringford Foundation, a Panamanian legal entity. [src-066] - Qualification: The chain is stated in an EWRC licensing report of 2024 that relies on the applicant's own submissions; no Singapore, Maltese, Swiss or Luxembourg register extract for these holdings is in the record. The report does not give the Jersey holders' shares or capacities. - Analysis: The same four people appear as declared beneficial owners in a subsidiary's register: the Bulgarian commercial register, as shown by aggregators, recorded Irwin, Lorinet, Weir and Vickerman as beneficial owners of Trafigura Bulgaria EOOD from 16 October 2023 until all four were removed on 4 September 2025, and Lorinet, Irwin, Richard Holtum and Weir from 26 January 2026. Such entries are declarations to the register and do not show the basis of control. [src-026] [src-069] ## Farringford N.V. and the 2018 chain - Analysis: In a transparency notification filed with Nyrstar for a threshold crossed on 27 December 2018, during a restructuring of the group, Farringford N.V. of Curaçao was stated to remain the ultimate controlling company of the group, and the notification added that after the death of Claude Dauphin in 2015 no person controls it. The attached chain ran from Farringford N.V. through Farringford Malta Limited, Beheer Malta Limited, Trafigura Control Holdings S.A.R.L. of Luxembourg, Trafigura Control Holdings Pte. Ltd., Trafigura Beheer B.V., Trafigura Group, Trafigura Holdings Pte. Ltd., Cortes Investments and Trafigura B.V. of Luxembourg to Urion Holdings (Malta). The record does not date the end of Farringford N.V.'s control. [src-043] - Analysis: GLEIF records Farringford N.V. (LEI 549300NLDV8DQ5WTJ223, registration 61251) as an active Curaçao company created on 24 September 1992 at Pareraweg 45, Willemstad, whose LEI lapsed in October 2022; according to an aggregator's summary of GLEIF events, it ceased to be recorded as ultimate parent of Trafigura Asia Trading on 5 February 2022 and of Beheer Malta on 31 July 2023. Malta registry data republished in a journalists' offshore-records database list Mark Irwin as director, secretary and shareholder of Farringford Malta and Beheer Malta, and a market-data aggregator describes him as managing director of Farringford N.V., a role not confirmed by a register extract in the record. [src-050] [src-049] [src-067] [src-033] ## Sources - [src-013] GLEIF record for Farringford Foundation (LEI 213800Z5SG67869MF746), Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), 2026-10-15 - [src-009] Corporate registry source · src-009 - [src-002] Company statement source · src-002 - [src-066] EWRC staff report on the natural-gas trading licence application of Trafigura Nat Gas Limited, Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (Bulgaria), 2024 - [src-026] Corporate registry source · src-026 - [src-069] Corporate registry source · src-069 - [src-043] Company statement source · src-043 - [src-050] GLEIF record for Farringford N.V. (LEI 549300NLDV8DQ5WTJ223), Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), 2026-10-15 - [src-049] Corporate registry source · src-049 - [src-067] Corporate registry source · src-067 - [src-033] Corporate registry source · src-033