BBC News: Shell appoints new finance chief: ‘a Shell veteran’
24 June 04
Troubled oil giant Shell has appointed a new finance chief as it seeks to reassure nervous investors.
Peter Voser, formerly chief financial officer at Swiss firm ABB, will join Shell with effect from 4 October.
Shell’s former CFO Judy Boynton quit in April this year following a row over the firm’s booking of oil reserves.
Shell has been forced to restate its reserves four times this year, sparking anger amongst shareholders and leading several top executives to quit.
Ms Boynton’s departure had been preceded by the removal of chairman Philip Watts and oil and gas chief Walter van de Vijver.
Mr Voser is a Shell veteran having held a variety of finance and business roles with the firm in Switzerland, the UK, Argentina and Chile from 1982 to March 2002.
His last posting at Shell was as chief financial officer on the global oil products executive committee.
Shell’s troubles first became apparent in January this year when it stunned investors by cutting its oil and gas reserves by 20%, a move which caused its share price to tumble.
There then followed three more restatements and the company is now under investigation by both UK and US authorities.
In April, Shell, as well as unveiling a 9% jump in first-quarter profits, announced a share buyback as it sought to calm investors.
The firm is also undertaking an internal review in an attempt to restore shareholder confidence.
It has said its twin board structure may be abolished – a reform many investors have been demanding.
The Anglo-Dutch group currently has two boards: one oversees Royal Dutch Petroleum, which owns 60% of the group, and the other heads UK-based Shell Transport and Trading.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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