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2 Aug 2002

Author:
Nicol Degli Innocenti, Financial Times

Shell faces South Africa apartheid lawsuits

Royal Dutch/Shell, the oil company, is to be cited in a multi-billion-dollar class action lawsuit brought by a team of lawyers on behalf of the victims of South Africa's apartheid regime, a lawyer said on Friday...Shell, which is accused of supplying the white minority regime with oil in violation of an anti-apartheid embargo, will be added to the list, which already includes IBM, the computer company, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank [part of Allianz], CommerzBank, UBS, Credit Suisse and Citicorp.

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