That it appears from documents that the Italian public prosecutor at the court of Milan has submitted. Shell and Eni deny the allegations.
It is a oliedeal for a value of only about 1 billion that Shell and the Italian olieconcern Eni in 2011 locks. A former Nigerian minister of bribery.
In connection with the same case did the tracing service FIOD and the Public Prosecutor in the Netherlands earlier research at the headquarters of Shell in The Hague. The Italian justice complains also Eni, as well as eleven people involved in the corruption involved.
Negligence
Shell showed Tuesday, in a response to know the matter to take seriously. The company works with the authorities and hopes, as the prosecutor can convince of innocence.
In the indictment of the Italian justice are also four managers of Shell called. Them is negligence, but they are not considered suspects identified.
Around the transaction hangs a hint of corruption, because the Nigerian government, the proceeds doorsluisde to a company that was owned by a controversial former olieminister. Shell and Eni obtained by the deal the right of exploitation in a potentially very lucrative field for the Nigerian coast.
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