Sunday 24 September 2006
THE lawyer of jailed Russian oligarch and former Yukos chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky criticised the London Stock Exchange for failing to warn investors of risks in trading with Russia, writes Jo MacFarlane. Robert Amsterdam, a founding partner of Toronto-based law firm
Amsterdam & Perroff, told the Financial Sunday Express the UK exchange was turning a “blind eye” to Russia’s “appalling record” on corporate governance.
The World Bank report, Governance Matters, published this month, ranked Russia 151st out of 200, on a par with Swaziland.
“What happened in Sakhalin strengthened the case for those in Russia to use energy as a weapon — which the West will continue to allow,” Amsterdam said. “That is why the World Bank report is so important but the silence that greeted it is staggering.
“The Kremlin has been turning regulatory staff into extortionists. They did it over Yukos, and now over Sakhalin. “The British Government and the rest of Europe allowed Russia to behave in a frankly shocking manner,” he added. “I never accept that Russia has leverage over Europe.”
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.
