AFX Europe (Focus): Shell reserve inquiry widens as attention turns to executives – report
“Sources told The Times that the investigation was at the earliest of stages and that no arrests or indictments were foreseen at present.”
Sept 15, 2004
The US Attorney’s office in New York has demanded boxes of documents related to the alleged oil reserve fraud at Royal Dutch/Shell, signalling an escalation of a federal investigation into the scandal, The Times reported.
Federal investigators are now looking into the activities of individual directors who are named in class action lawsuits surrounding the scandal, rather than seeking to prosecute the company as a whole, the paper said.
The demand marks a shift in the inquiries under way at Shell, which had until now been involved in civil investigations led by the US SEC and the FSA.
The Times said the request was revealed in a New Jersey courtroom yesterday when lawyers presenting a class action lawsuit on behalf of US investors appeared before Judge Donald Haneke to update their claim.
Shell is accused of misleading investors by overstating its oil reserves between 1998 and last year.
Sources told The Times that the investigation was at the earliest of stages and that no arrests or indictments were foreseen at present.
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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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