Daily Telegraph: Shell shows some sense
“At last, faint signs of common sense emerging from the Shell Lubyanka over the fate of the British shareholders in Royal Dutch.”
Saturday 13 August 2005
Shell may offer tax-efficient option to its rebel investors
At last, faint signs of common sense emerging from the Shell Lubyanka over the fate of the British shareholders in Royal Dutch.
Despite spending $115m in fees, Shell had resolutely ignored their plight.
The scheme to create Royal Dutch Shell has presented them with a taxable capital gain, even though they have not sold their shares.
The otherwise admirable Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s new chief executive, had claimed that there was nothing in the toolbox which could help them.
Now it seems there might be, and it looks like a pretty simple tool, too.
Shell has promised to look into the possibility of the sort of routine paper swap familiar to anyone who has been offered shares in a bidding company.
Can Van the Builder fix it?
Surely he can; he might send the bill to the advisers, too.
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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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