Business Report: Shell unit pays $1.86bn taxes to Nigerian state
“Last year Shell reduced part of its production in western Niger Delta, following the escalation of ethnic conflict in the area”
July 6, 2004
Lagos – Shell Petroleum Development (SPD) paid $1.86 billion (R11.41 billion) in taxes to the Nigerian government last year through its Nigerian joint venture, according to media reports.
SPD, Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary, operates a joint venture with state-run Nigerian National Petroleum (NNP), in which NNP holds 55 percent, SPD 30 percent, Total 10 percent and Agip (a unit of Italy’s ENI), 5 percent.
Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper quoted Precious Omuku, SPD’s director of external relations, as saying the partners paid $1.26 billion as petroleum profit tax and $600 million as royalties. Omuku was speaking at the presentation of Shell’s 2003 People and Environment Report in Lagos.
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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
