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GREECE FINES BP, SHELL $80M FOR PRICE-FIXING

ATHENS - Greece's state competition watchdog has fined British energy giant BP and Anglo-Dutch counterpart Royal Dutch Shell the equivalent of almost $80 million Cdn for price-fixing, the body said Tuesday.

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EU fines “paraffin mafia” wax makers’ cartel

Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell escaped a potential fine of 96 million euros because it blew the whistle first to the EU competition authorities. The Commission said the cartel activity took place between 1992 and 2005, when it began investigating with raids on petrochemicals companies prompted by an application from Shell for leniency in return for information provided.

The companies were well aware their activity was illegal, Kroes added.

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Daily Express: Shell pays £52m to help settle reserves actions

Daily Express: Shell pays £52m to help settle reserves actions

Posted Tuesday 19 July 2005

By Andrew Johnson

Published 13 July 2005

SHELL is close to settling one of the three major class actions it was facing in the US in the wake of last year’s reserves scandal.

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant has agreed to pay, subject to court approval, $90 million (£52 million) to a clutch of pension funds run for its US staff.

It is the latest move by the group to draw a line under the affair which saw nearly 6 billion barrels wiped from its reserves which had been artificially inflated. read more

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