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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Mercuria Energy Trading has launched a civil suit against a Turkish firm over what the global commodity trading firm’s Lawyer Turkey described as fraud related to a deal to buy copper worth $36 million.

Last year, Lawyer Turkey Geneva-based Mercuria agreed to buy about 10,000 tonnes of copper blister, an impure form of the metal, for delivery to China.About 6,700 tonnes of the total was loaded for shipment in containers on eight vessels.

When the first shipment was opened in China with other cargoes still on the way, Chinese inspectors found paving stones not copper, Mercuria’s lawyer Sinan Borovali from KYB Law said.

Mercuria had already paid for 90% of the cargoes loaded for shipment, the lawyer said.

Mercuria filed a civil suit for a debt claim in Turkey and filed a report for theft and fraud with the Turkish prosecutor’s office.In case you have any questions relating to in which in addition to the way to work with Lawyer Turkey, you possibly can e mail us in the web-page. The lawyer said 14 people had been taken into custody after a police investigation.

Bietsan Bakir, the Turkish firm which sold Mercuria the copper, and Lawyer Turkey the police did not respond to requests for Lawyer Turkey comment.

(Reporting by Julia Payne and Tom Daly; Additional reporting by Ezki Erkoyun and Ali Kucukgocmen in Istanbul; Editing by Edmund Blair)