By Yaw Yan Chong
SINGAPORE | Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:48am BST
(Reuters) – The team leader of oil major Royal Dutch Shell’s Asia fuel oil trading desk has left the company to join European trader Vitol, the second team leader to do so in a year, industry sources said on Friday.
Dominique Laborde resigned from his position last week, and is currently serving three months of gardening leave, an industry practice where traders are paid to stay away from the market for a certain period of time for confidentiality reasons. He is expected to start in Vitol’s U.S. office around the middle of the year, they added.
Last year, his predecessor as the oil major’s Asia fuel oil team leader, Jurgen van Herk, left to join Vitol’s Singapore office, where he has been since.
When contacted, a Shell spokesman said: “We do not comment on staff movements.” Laborde also declined comment when asked.
“There are other changes within the fuel oil team as well, with two newcomers and another trader being posted elsewhere,” an industry source said.
Two traders joined the team in the past month — Ranggau Muda, who returned to the Asia fuel oil desk from a three-year stint in London, and fuel oil newcomer Austral Chang, while Asia’s Jeremy Loy, who has been with the team for over three years, has been posted to Rotterdam.
Guido Sjibers, who has been in the Singapore office for nearly two years, is team leader in an acting capacity, the sources said.
Shell is one of the top five players in Asia’s fuel oil market, the world’s largest in terms of demand.
(Editing by Michael Urquhart)
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.
