️🇵🇳 Loaded with USDT in exchange for crude oil that was never delivered.

Three Orlan-leased supertankers sat empty near Venezuela for months as deadlines passed, and after a change in the Polish government exposed the deal, the new management canceled the contract, estimating total losses of nearly $424 million.

Prosecutors in Warsaw charged former executives at Orlen Trading Switzerland, including former CEO Samer Awad, with criminal mismanagement, although the case did not go to trial, and the dispute between Orlen and Hanon remains in arbitration.