Chevron falsified evidence before U.S. Federal Court
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Chevron falsified evidence before U.S. Federal Court
Thursday, 2 April 2015, 1:44 pm
Chevron Falsified Evidence Before U.S. Federal Court About Authorship of Ecuador Judgment, Arbitration Panel Is Told
NEW YORK, N.Y., Mar. 31 - A new forensic analysis appears to completely undermine the testimony of Chevron’s star witness in the Ecuador pollution case and suggests the oil company falsified evidence about the authorship of the Ecuador trial judgment to evade paying its $9.5 billion liability, according to legal filings presented recently to an investor arbitration panel.
(For quick details, see page 144 of this legal brief filed in that arbitration proceeding by Ecuador’s government.)
The new forensic report, prepared by the American J. Christopher Racich, found extensive evidence to support the testimony of Ecuador trial judge Nicolas Zambrano that he wrote the 188-page decision that found Chevron liable for the dumping of billions of gallons of oil waste into the waterways forests of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Ecuador’s Supreme Court unanimously affirmed Zambrano’s findings in 2013, but Chevron has refused to pay the judgment despite agreeing to litigate the matter in the South American nation.
The Racich Report – which was completed in 2014 for a related investor arbitration dispute between Chevron and Ecuador’s government – concluded that the judgment was written painstakingly over a period of months on Zambrano’s office computer, directly contradicting the claim of Chevron’s witness that it was written elsewhere and then given to the judge on a flash drive just before it was issued.
Chevron’s “evidence” was the oral testimony of crooked former Ecuadorian judge, Alberto Guerra, to whom the company paid more than $2 million in cash and benefits. The villagers and their lawyers have long asserted Chevron’s payments were essentially a bribe in exchange for false testimony, violated federal law, and rendered Guerra’s assertions not credible.
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