A routine “freight on board” (FOB) transaction between agricultural exporter Lombard Trading International and global food supply chain business Sadot Latam LLC has turned into a complex web of deceit that courts may have to resolve.

The deal between the two international brokers last year was simple. Lombard contracted to sell Sadot 20,000 tons of soybean meal to be delivered and paid for at the port of San Lorenzo, Argentina. The product’s final destination: Lebanon.

Among details of the transaction, Sadot was to decide who would ship the product and who the buyer would be at the final destination.