Simon Bowers
Monday February 25 2008
The Office of Fair Trading imposed a £116m fine on a number of supermarket groups and dairy companies, including Asda, Sainsbury and Dairy Crest.
Sainsbury’s fine was £40m but that was reduced to £26m because of the company’s co-operation with investigators.
September 2007: Southern Water was hit with a £20.3m penalty – Ofwat’s biggest ever – for misreporting and poor service over several years. The Serious Fraud Office dropped an investigation into Southern Water in April after finding insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges.
September 2007: Thames Water was fined £12.5m for supplying inaccurate information and providing a poor service to customers. It claimed that the penalty would have a detrimental effect on its customers, as money that could have been spent improving service would instead go to the Treasury.
August 2007: BA fined £121.5m by the OFT for involvement in the fixing of long-haul fuel surcharges
July 2007: Cadbury Schweppes fined £1m over salmonella outbreak that gave 42 people food poisoning and put three of them in hospital.
April 2007: United Utilities was fined £8.5m by Ofwat for paying inflated prices to its sister companies. By increasing its costs in this manner, the company was able to argue that customer bills should be higher.
2005: Shell fined £17m by the Financial Services Authority after overstating its oil reserves by 25%. The episode was described by the regulator as “unprecedented misconduct”.
2003: Seven companies, including Manchester United, JJB Sports, Umbro and the Football Association, were fined more than £16m by the OFT for price fixing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/25/utilities.nationalgrid
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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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