EMAIL TO SHELL LEGAL DIRECTOR RICHARD WISEMAN

26 April 04 (second email)

Dear Mr Wiseman

Thank you for your usual speedy response.

I have amended the relevant copy as follows and hope it meets with your approval: -

DRAFT

The fundamental flaw in the SGBP did not deter the Chairman of the Shell CMD, Jeroen van der Veer and his Vice Chairman, Malcolm Brinded from circulating messages to Shell employees worldwide last week (extracts below) quoting from the “core values” of the SGBP which Mr Wiseman admits have no legal value whatsoever. They are not binding on Shell and cannot be replied upon in court. To use his precise terminology, Mr Wiseman has stated in writing that “there was no intention to create a document for use in the courts. It was intended to lay down a code of behaviour by which we think we should be judged by the public at large and in this respect perhaps define higher standards than some other commercial organisations impose upon themselves”. (our underlining)

We can only surmise that his recently departed senior colleagues (and some remaining ones) forgot to read the SGBP which solemnly promise integrity, honesty and transparency in all of Shell’s dealings. Mr Wiseman might like to pretend otherwise but the bottom line is that like a bet with a bookmaker, Shell’s much vaunted “core principles” are binding in honour only. In other words, place your complete trust in an already discredited Shell management; in the case of Van der Veer and Brinded, two key players already implicated (up to their necks) in the oil reserves cover-up.

END OF DRAFT

Kind regards
Alfred Donovan
 

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