Compliance headaches have gone global this week, from Nigeria to China.
First, Royal/Dutch Shell finally blinked and settled a civil lawsuit against the company about to start in New York. Relatives of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian civil-rights activist hanged by authorities there in 1995, had sued Shell under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act for alleged complicity with the government in Saro-Wiwa’s death. Shell agreed to pay $15.5 million to Saro-Wiwa’s family and the survivors of eight other activists executed along with him.
