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The two court judgments in the last three weeks ended the two criminal trials Mr Adoke has faced since 2020.

The ruling tallies with the judgement of another court exonerating Mr Adoke with respect to the controversial OPL 245, widely known as the Malabu Oil deal.

Officials with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana announced on Thursday that it has secured a $1.37 million settlement to clean up pollution and contamination at a former oil site on the southwest side of Indianapolis.

Three non-governmental organisations, Re:Common (Italy), HEDA Resource Centre (Nigeria) and Corner House (UK) on Monday announced that they had filed a complaint at the Court of Appeal in The Hague challenging the decision by the Dutch Prosecutors Office to drop its investigation of Shell and Shell management relating to alleged corruption in Nigeria. The Complaint was filed by the Dutch law firm Prakken pursuant to Article 12 of the Dutch Code for Criminal Procedure.

  The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has strongly condemned Italy for recent judgments that now place Italy at odds with the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention. An Italian court sitting in Milan had a few months ago acquitted energy companies, Eni and Royal Dutch Shell along with a series of past and present managers, including Eni Chief Executive, Claudio Descalzi in one of the oil industry’s biggest corruption scandals. The trial judge held that the companies and defendants had been discharged as there was no case to answer.