London Evening Standard: Venezuela hits Shell with £74m bill for back tax
“The Venezuelan authorities said Shell now faces a 15-day deadline for handing over the funds said to be owed. If it pays up within that period, interest on the sum allegedly owed will be charged at 10%. If not, the rate will rise to 250%.”
Posted Sunday 17 July 2005
Published by The London Evening Standard on Friday 15 JULY 2005
HARD on the heels of news that Royal Dutch Shell faces a massive cost overrun on its flagship Sakhalin-2 project in Russia, the company has been caught up in a tax wrangle with the Venezuelan authorities, writes Jake Lloyd-Smith.
The South American country’s tax authority has said the energy giant owes $131 million (£74.5 million) in back tax for the years from 2001 to 2004.
Shell reportedly rebuffed the claim, saying it had met all its Venezuelan tax obligations.
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.
