Global Methanol Deaths Continue to Rise: 15,000 and Counting
How can we track a pair of shoes delivered to your doorstep in real time, yet cannot trace a lethal chemical shipment once it leaves the dock?
That single question exposes one of the most dangerous regulatory failures of our time.
Over the past decade, more than 14,800 people have died worldwide from methanol poisoning, according to a global database compiled by Médecins Sans Frontières and Oslo University Hospital and reported by The Guardian. Nearly 80 countries have recorded fatal outbreaks since roughly 2015. Entire villages wiped out. Families blinded. Emergency rooms were overwhelmed.
And yet the global methanol trade keeps booming.
At the center of this shadow economy sits Tricon Energy, a USA based chemical and global trader with sales in excess of USD $10 Billion that openly describes itself as the Walmart of chemicals. Public disclosures show explosive growth, with tens of millions of tons of chemicals moved annually across borders.
Cheap. Fast. Everywhere.
That scale brings power. But it should also bring responsibility.
Methanol a commodity without accountability
Methanol is a high volume industrial chemical used in fuels, solvents, plastics, and energy production. It moves through ports, tankers, terminals, traders, and distributors by the millions of tons every year.
Yet methanol is still shipped without mandatory tracers, markers, or chemical fingerprints.
Once it leaves the supplier and passes through intermediaries, it becomes effectively anonymous. When it later appears in adulterated fuel, counterfeit alcohol, or criminal supply chains, investigators hit a wall.
No tag.
No trail.
No accountability.
This is not a technical limitation. It is a regulatory choice.
Brazil’s latest death toll adds urgency
In Brazil, the human toll of methanol poisoning has sharply increased.
In late 2025, the Ministry of Health reported at least 22 confirmed deaths from methanol intoxication linked to adulterated alcoholic beverages and hundreds of cases nationwide. In early February 2026, the São Paulo state government confirmed its 12th methanol related fatality, with at least 52 confirmed poisonings.
This is not an isolated tragedy.
This is a growing public health crisis.
Bio Clean Energy; a clean energy dream destroyed
I lived this experience and for this reason I am speaking out.
I founded a large-scale commercial biodiesel facility in São Paulo, Brazil, authorized by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) to produce up to 110 million liters of biodiesel per year. The operation was fully licensed, industrial in scale, and designed to supply renewable fuel into Brazil’s regulated energy market.
Then my company was invaded by the mafia called PCC, specifically Mohammed Hussein Mourad.
I personally issued or participated in nine formal notifications to Tricon Energy, our methanol supplier, to not ship methanol prior to and during the invasion, those warnings were ignored.
PCC actor, Mohamad Hussein Mourad was physically present at the Bio Clean Energy facility (Subsidiary Bio Petro in Araraquara, SP).. The facility was invaded. Access was taken. Operations were disrupted. Control was asserted by criminal actors.
I was locked out of my own plant.
I did not walk away.
I flew from the United States to Brazil to confront what was happening and to attempt to regain control through lawful means. When I arrived and found the facility effectively taken over, I entered my own plant by jumping the fence, knowing the personal risk, because abandoning it would have meant surrendering it entirely to criminal control.
Immediately afterward, I filed a formal police report documenting the invasion, the loss of control, and Mourad’s presence on site. I also recorded and publicly posted video evidence in real time to create a permanent public record.
I confronted the situation.
I documented it.
I reported it.
I sought institutional help.
I did not stay silent.
Unfortunately, my new security team was bribed by the mafia within 48 hours and the police reports yielded no investigation. I was unable to enter my own company and stop the crime.
This crime led to the entire investment loss of the facility and created numerous financial burdens. We are waiting for justice in Brazil and the United States with legal actions running against Tricon Energy for shipping against my 9 written instructions and against Bradesco Bank for allowing 3rd parties to use my account to pay for methanol.
We are attempting to hold Tricon Energy accountable and this case is in front of the STJ of Brazil.
Banco Bradesco
My bank statements showed unauthorized third parties with no legitimate business relationship depositing millions of dollars into accounts connected to my operation to pay for methanol.
Banco Bradesco engaged in money laundering by allowing unauthorized third parties to pay for methanol in my company name.
My legal case in Brazil was ruled against me in 48 hours without the right to present oral arguments by three judges, a process that normally takes years.
I am awaiting a judicial review in this case by the STF in Brazil
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