Sunday Telegraph: City Diary: Hedge Hopper
“Martyn Hopper of Herbert Smith is the legal beagle sinking his teeth into the Financial Services Authority for being beastly to Sir Philip Watts, the ousted former chairman of Shell.”
By Robert Watts
Martyn Hopper of Herbert Smith is the legal beagle sinking his teeth into the Financial Services Authority for being beastly to Sir Philip Watts, the ousted former chairman of Shell. Watts and Hopper allege the City policeman has produced a “fundamentally flawed” report into the fiasco of the oil giant’s overbooking of reserves and has stomped all over the veteran oil man’s rights.
But who is Hopper? Err, he’s none other than the former head of the FSA enforcement division’s Market Integrity Group (the inquisitors of the City’s rampers and dodgers).
“He’s off the Christmas card list,” barks one of the pups at the watchdog.
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
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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