Shell reviews deals involving former executive accused of bribery
Former vice-president not linked to corruption charges over offshore acquisition, says company
London — Royal Dutch Shell has concluded that a Nigerian oilfield sale where it suspects an executive took bribes was not linked to a separate court case in which he and Shell face corruption charges over a $1.1bn offshore acquisition. The Anglo-Dutch company filed a criminal complaint in March against Peter Robinson, a former vice-president for sub-Saharan Africa, saying he took bribes in the $390m sale of onshore Oil Mining Lease (OML) 42 to a Nigerian firm. Robinson is also one of several former Shell employees involved in a trial in Milan, in which Shell and Italy's Eni are accused of corruption related to the $1.1bn purchase of a giant Nigerian offshore field, Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245. Both the OML 42 and OPL 245 deals were signed in 2011. Shell, the largest foreign investor in Nigeria, said it had completed an internal review of the OML 42 sale process and other deals Robinson was involved in, and it concluded his only violation was related to OML 42. Shell, Eni and R...
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