- The Guardian,
- Wednesday July 2, 2008
- Article history
Troubled UBS sees four board members resign
Swiss bank UBS sought to shore up its battered reputation by enforcing the resignation of four board members. However, its shares slumped to a new 10-year low. The changes came hours after US prosecutors asked a judge to force the bank to disclose details about its US customers using Swiss accounts to evade income tax. The four board members, Stephan Haeringer, Rolf Meyer, Peter Spuhler and Lawrence Weinbach, will step down in October. UBS shares fell a further 6.25% on fears it would issue another profits warning and were trading at barely Sfr20 (£9.85) – a third of their value a year ago.
David Gow in Brussels
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.
