Advice for Shell to Sea.
Anton Doyle | 13.05.2009 10:17
Minister Burke off to jail
In July 2004, Irish minister Ray Burke pleaded guilty to making false tax returns. The charges arose from his failure to declare for tax purposes the corrupt payments that he had received from the backers of Century Radio. On 24 January 2005 he was sentenced to 6 months in Arbour Hill Prison for these offences.
Burke was later unambiguously judged by Justice Flood to be "corrupt"
Protesters against the Shell pipeline, have claimed that the deal made by Burke which exempted the oil company Royal Dutch Shell from paying any royalties for the Irish gas had the hallmarks of a corrupt decision.
A civil action should be taken by “Shell to Sea”against Burke, Shell and the Irish State for allowing this obvious corruption to continue.
It would be easy to win a civil judgement against Burke for corruption as he is already a jailbirdfor the same crime.
If “Shell to Sea” don’t have the money they should raise it with a few gigs.
Burke was later unambiguously judged by Justice Flood to be "corrupt"
Protesters against the Shell pipeline, have claimed that the deal made by Burke which exempted the oil company Royal Dutch Shell from paying any royalties for the Irish gas had the hallmarks of a corrupt decision.
A civil action should be taken by “Shell to Sea”against Burke, Shell and the Irish State for allowing this obvious corruption to continue.
It would be easy to win a civil judgement against Burke for corruption as he is already a jailbirdfor the same crime.
If “Shell to Sea” don’t have the money they should raise it with a few gigs.
Anton Doyle
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copy to Ireland
13.05.2009 11:47
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Oh FFS!
14.05.2009 20:09
Your idea isn't actually that clever. You assume a civil action would be easy-peasy because some washed-up ex-minister got a criminal conviction. Not necessarily so. The lower burden of proof cuts both ways. Lots more wriggle room. Do you really think an Irish civil court is going to bend over backwards to expose Shell as the corrupt scumbags they are. And even if this happened, so what? Most of the time, they're fairly blatant about it and don't really care.
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