Monday, October 23, 2006. Issue 3524. Page 7.
Authorities are investigating tax payments of a venture half-owned by Royal Dutch Shell, the oil firm said Friday, adding to the pressure it is facing in its Sakhalin-2 project.
Shell’s Salym Petroleum Development, or SPD, joint venture with Sibir Energy said it had received a back tax claim that it was disputing.
“Tax authorities conducted a planned tax check at the SPD branch in Nefteyugansk in the summer. They discovered some violations for 2002 to 2004. We do not agree with the claims and have filed a suit with the Nefteyugansk arbitration court,” said Yelena Zakupneva, external affairs manager at SPD.
“We did nothing wrong and hope to win the case,” she said.
Zakupneva declined to say how much the demand was for, but Vedomosti put the figure at more than $10 million.
The venture operates three fields in the Khanty-Mansiysk region of western Siberia and started producing commercially last November. It is expected to be producing at least 165,000 barrels per day by the end of the decade.
The back tax claims follow months of inspections of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project off the Pacific coast, which is led by Shell.
With a total investment budget of $1.3 billion, SPD is one of the largest onshore energy projects in Russia, but Sakhalin-2 is far bigger.
Reuters
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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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