August 19, 2007: 11:30 AM EST
BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)-The Argentine government’s price controllers are seeking arrest warrants for top executives at the local unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN), apparently on the grounds that the company has failed to adequately supply the local fuels market, Argentine daily La Nacion reported Sunday.
Government and company officials weren’t immediately available for comment amid the long weekend. Monday is a national holiday.
The apparent request, made to a judge by the government’s price control point man, Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno, comes after a string of government measures against Shell that began in March 2005, when President Nestor Kirchner called on Argentines to boycott Shell stations for lifting prices, a move followed by the local unit of Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM).
Shell and Exxon cited skyrocketing global oil prices for the pump price increases. Following Kirchner’s call to action, however, protesters marched on several Shell stations in Buenos Aires. As sales dropped off, Shell and Esso quickly reversed the price hikes. Pump prices have remained more or less under de facto government control since.
In September of last year, the government forced Shell to pull a new, more expensive premium diesel from stations by publishing a retroactive decree that required prior government approval for all new fuels. Moreno’s office also sent investigators to review Shell’s administrative records.
A month later, the government activated a 1974 “supply law” that allows for fines and imprisonment of executives from companies that fail to supply goods, in that case diesel fuel, which was running short as farmers moved to plant soy.
Since then, the government has fined Shell twice for allegedly failing to supply the market. Moreno is apparently seeking an arrest warrant under the supply law’s provisions, La Nacion reported.
Meanwhile, the head of Shell’s local operations, Juan Jose Aranguren, has broken ranks with other fuel retailers, steadily criticizing the government. Additionally, the company hasn’t participated in a recent meeting called by Moreno to discuss prices.
-By Drew Benson, Dow Jones Newswires; 54911-4417-2884; andrew.benson@ dowjones.com
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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.
