Chiquita loses legal battle to keep documents secret
Chiquita loses legal battle to keep documents secret
by: Dan Kovalik
December 16 2013
Chiquita Brands International, Inc. has lost a case in U.S. District Court in which it attempted to block the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from releasing documents relating to its payments to a Colombian terrorist group.
These documents have been sought from the SEC by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act.
As Michael Evans of the National Security Archive explains, the documents being sought will hopefully reveal, as some other Chiquita documents in the past, that Chiquita's claims that it paid the United Self Defense Forces (AUC) paramilitaries merely because it was being extorted to do so are not true.
As Evans explains, Chiquita has long maintained that the payments were the result of extortion, and the sentencing memo states that the company had never received "any actual security services or actual security equipment in exchange for the payments."
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