RUSSIA’S authorities opened a second front in their challenge to Shell, slapping a demand for back taxes on the Salym field in Siberia, one of the country’s largest onshore fields.
Local reports put the claim at ‘more than $10m’ (£5.4m). Shell (down 3p to 1817p) owns Salym with Sibir Energy. The Salym operating company said it would dispute the claim.
Shell is already under fire at the huge Sakhalin project, where costs have soared to £10.6bn. The higher they rise, the longer Russia must wait for revenues.
Russian oil has been highly profitable since crude prices rose. But foreign investors have been jittery about tax demands since they were used to crush Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Yukos oil empire. He was jailed for eight years and Yukos offices were repeatedly raided.
Since then BP’s TNK joint venture and Russia’s Lukoil have been hit with demands for extra payments.
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.
