Daily Telegraph: Van the Builder must Shell out for 3,000
“These shareholders have been treated shabbily. Yet Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s chief executive, says there is nothing left in his tool-box to help them, which seems careless after spending $115m on advice.”
Saturday 9 July 2005
City comment
Edited by Neil Collins
(Filed: 09/07/2005)
Shell lowers threshold for merger to go through
More news from Shell, which is trying to merge its British and Dutch parts into a monolith called Royal Dutch Shell. The £100billion deal was proceeding smoothly until yesterday, when Shell suddenly cut the required level of acceptances for Dutch investors from 95pc to 75pc.
The company’s PR machine had no convincing explanation for this, but some of Shell’s army of observers reckon it betrays nerves, at least among the advisers. One difficulty is with the 3,000 British holders of Royal Dutch shares, who are being hit with a capital gains tax bill even though they are not selling, and rather than meekly accept and pay the tax – estimated at £177m between them – they are likely to sit on their hands and see what happens.
These shareholders have been treated shabbily. Yet Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s chief executive, says there is nothing left in his tool-box to help them, which seems careless after spending $115m on advice. Van the Builder should look again to tweak a deal for the unlucky 3,000. Can he do it? Yes, he can!
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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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