EMAIL FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO SHELL OFFICIAL MICHIEL BRANDJES: 10 SEPT 2012

EMAIL FROM JOHN DONOVAN TO MICHIEL BRANDJES, COMPANY SECRETARY & GENERAL COUNSEL CORPORATE: SENT 10 SEPT 2012

From: John Donovan <[email protected]>
Subject: Shell Corrib Gas Project Allegations of Corruption
Date: 10 September 2012 08:43:45 GMT+01:00
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Dear Mr Brandjes

Printed below is a self-explanatory email received today.

If you wish to investigate this matter kindly let me know by 3pm UK time today. If I receive no response by then, I will assume that the email is authentic and that this is another one of those occasions where Shell does not wish to comment on the allegations being made. Readers will then be able to draw their own conclusions.

If, however, you do wish to investigate, then we will not publish anything on this matter until you have had a reasonable time to establish the facts. Just let me know by 3pm UK time that you do intend to investigate before responding further.

Any response will, as normal, be published in full, unedited by us.

Best Regards
John Donovan

EMAIL ALLEDEGLY FROM OSSL TO BRIAN FOLEY, SHELL E&P Ireland

From: OSSL <[email protected]>
Date: 23 August 2012 10:45:02 GMT+01:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: Your instructions to OSSL for the record .a sinister twist

For the attention of Mr Brian Foley  Contracts Manager  Shell Corrib Gas Project ,
Leeson Street Dublin , and Bellanaboy Site Erris County Mayo .

Dear Mr Foley ,
In March 2012 at a meeting in Shell head office in London in the presence of Mr Michael Crothers CEO Shell E&P Ireland  Julia Busby Head of Legal Shell and Frances van Dam of Shells business integrity department BID , I was informed by Miss van Dam that when asked by her for your confirmation that you had used OSSL to make payments of cash and gifts to various parties in Erris and beyond you declared that you had no such knowledge of the numerous transactions  that had taken place .

Can you imagine the surprise and shock on hearing this declaration by you when you know fine well you had on occasions called to our business premises in person and in the presence of three  witnesses (some times four ) and gave instructions regarding the purchase of various items to be gifted to local householders with a view to advancing your project in a particularly difficult period of your construction program , these transactions were later “buried” by your Mr Conner Byrne of Shell in a manner such as to disguise the nature of the purchase and the recipient ,to that end he (Mr Byrne ) demanded that the invoices to cover the transactions be falsified and diverted to Roadbridge ( a Corrib contractor ) so as to avoid any connection with Shell directly .whilst we did not agree with this route for reimbursement we were given no alternative .

Whilst I can only imagine that your inexplicable denial of what you knew to be the facts in this matter is brought on by a need for self preservation completely ignoring the enormous consequence for me and my family which you have just witnessed , it is clear that had you come clean to Mr Crothers then this matter could have been resolved with the minimum of pain some thing you might want to reflect on .

You will recall that you attended a meeting on this matter with Shell Corrib Financial Director Ann Hamilton in Lesson Street some time ago at which all these Disguised favours were openly discussed  including the cash payments to security Guards at which you spoke at length on indicating how that should have been hidden , Ann Hamilton disagreed on that matter .i mention this meeting in particular (others took place ) because you were very concerned and genuinely worried about exposure of this covert payments scenario ,how you went from that position to total denial is beyond me .

We (OSSL) have in the coarse of recent meetings learned in the presence of our legal people that OSSL suffered a very sinister blow in so far as our cooperation with SHELL in accommodating your requests has lead to our removal from  the Corrib Gas Project a move on Shells that has been described as immoral by Mr Crothers at a recent meeting in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin .

Do you recall that in meeting in the Broadhaven Hotel chaired by your goodself in July 2010
We again discussed payments of invoices that had been diverted to Roadbridge in a disguised
Manner that hid the fact that the content was actually televisions and other household goods for
Project cooperators Mrs Noone at Glengad and that other valued cooperator Mr Eamon Sweeney
Also from Glengad landfall site , Shell insisted that these invoices be transformed into safety wear from televisions and cookers and that that was the only way we would be reimbursed ,Brian Foley instructed Roadbridge to pay the invoices in their disguised state and Roadbridge complied.

It would be fair to ask you how you could chair such a meeting instruct in the manner you did
And then cop a plea of “I know nothing” at polar opposite with the facts.

Mr Crothers had great difficulty understanding such a bold contradiction when he learned of the
Broadhaven Meeting .

Miss Van Dam had details and a copy of the Shell falsified invoice made out to Roadbridge  but was a loss to explain why she had accepted your declaration of no knowledge re disguised invoices whilst holding contradictory evidence in her hand .

Mr Foley I would suggest to you I that you are fully aware  that OSSL cooperated with Shell in a joint aim to delivering a successful CORRIB GAS DEVELOPMENT  you witnessed a small local company bending over backwards to accommodate SHELLS ever wish however you have stood by and watched  decent people suffer for their compliance with you requests .

Mr Conner Byrne Of Shell has assured us at OSSL that disclosure of any of this aforementioned
Activity will result in OSSL never working in the oil and Gas industry again .

Looks like he’s right

Shame on you

Three members of OSSL

Des Neil Amanda

Footnote Neil Rooney whom I have observed over the last number of years going a long way out of his road to assist you and many of your colleagues in a personal capacity and for no reward was denied a simple reference by project management that would have assisted him in obtaining another job …….eaten bread is soon forgotten !!!!

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