The Associated Press June 21, 2010, 1:57PM ET
SAfrican watchdog fines oil firms on price-fixing
JOHANNESBURG
South Africa’s anti-competition watchdog says that a number of international oil giants, including Chevron and Shell, are facing hefty fines for price collusion, a punishable offense in South Africa.
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal, which investigates companies’ competition conduct, said Monday that between 2000 and 2009 oil companies Chevron, Shell, Engen, Total, Masana, Sasol and Tosas colluded in fixing their products’ prices.
The tribunal confirmed it will impose a 10 percent penalty on some of the oil firms.
Masana has been fined 13 million rand ($1.5 million), it says. Sasol and its subsidiary, Tosas, were exempted after cooperating in the probe.
Reaction from the oil companies was not immediately available.
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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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