LONDON (AFX) – Shell Petroleum Development Co has denied accusations by Nigeria’s House of Representatives that the oil group ‘underpaid’ the government around 3.2 bln usd.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC owns 30 pct of SPDC, while state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp controls 55 pct. France’s Total SA and Italy’s Agip hold the remaining 10 pct and 5 pct, respectively.
The lower house is currently looking into allegations that SPDC ‘underpaid’ Nigeria 3.2 bln usd in respect to the crude oil it extracted there in 2000.
In a statement issued by Shell in London, SPDC said it ‘conducts its business in compliance with relevant regulations and laws.’
‘Accounts and transactions were subjected to annual audits by our joint venture partners as provided for in the joint operating agreement during the period in question, and no wrongdoing was found,’ it said.
Nigerian legislators on Wednesday issued a subpoena to compel Edmund Daukoru, the petroleum minister, to appear before a parliamentary committee probing the alleged scam.
Daukoru had refused to honour an earlier invitation by the panel.
The committee demanded that ‘appropriate sanctions’ be imposed on Daukoru for ‘aiding SPDC and deliberately refusing to appear before the committee.’
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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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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
