By Carolina Millan: September 13, 2016
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Tax declarations show he owns $1 million worth of Shell shares
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Aranguren was chief executive officer of Shell Argentina
Argentina’s Energy and Mining Minister, Juan Jose Aranguren, has sold his shares of Royal Dutch Shell Plc following criticism from anti-graft authorities, President Mauricio Macri said.
Aranguren, formerly the chief executive officer of Shell Argentina, sold his shares in the company, Macri said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. Earlier, the minister was excused from all dealings with Shell in Argentina, according to a decree published in the official gazette. The minister, who owned $16 million pesos ($1 million) shares in the company according to reports of his tax documents for 2015, received a non-binding recommendation on Monday from the anti-graft office to sell his stock.
Calls and emails to the energy ministry seeking comment were not immediately returned.
“Shell has an activity in Argentina that is minor compared to its global operations, but I understand that the forms are important,” Macri said. “I believe that Argentina needs to heal that damage that corruption did.”
The energy minister will be replaced by Production Minister Francisco Cabrera in any proceedings that relate to Shell, according to the resolution published on Tuesday and signed by Macri and cabinet chief Marcos Pena. The decree notes that Aranguren requested that the government “excuse him from participating in proceedings” related to Shell or other companies linked to it.
Since taking office in December, Macri has pledged to increase transparency and fight corruption in the government. A series of graft scandals related to former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and some of her closest officers are under investigation by the judiciary. A recent robbery of $67,000 in cash from Macri’s Vice President Gabriela Michetti residency has also raised questions on the origins of the money.
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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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