The Rico Files: The Invasion and Destruction of Bio Clean Energy in Brazil

  Brazil Finance Minister Haddad Echoes Bio Clean Energy on Fuel Mafia; Tricon Energy unwilling to respond to facts and questions Brazil Now Admits Fuel Crime Runs Through Delaware. Bio Clean’s Story Shows How Far the Ring Really Reaches. Recent statements by Brazilian authorities confirm what we at Bio Clean have been trying to show for years. Officials now say that the fuel sector has been infiltrated by organized crime, that billions of reais in unpaid taxes are connected to complex financial structures, and that United States entities, including Delaware vehicles, are part of the laundering circuit. For most people this is a disturbing headline. For us at Bio Clean Energy it is the architecture that destroyed our project. I am writing now to place one central fact on the record for regulators in Brazil and in the United States In my case, Tricon Energy, at the time Brazil’s largest importer of methanol, ignored me as President of Bio Clean Energy, a client of nine years, and ch...