On January 28 , Chevron Corp. filed overwhelming new testimonial and documentary evidence of fraud by the Ecuadorian plaintiffs who hold a $19 billion judgment against it including a declaration by a former judge that the judgment itself was procured through bribery.
Human rights advocates have rallied behind the allegations that Chevron is responsible for an environmental calamity in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Distinguished counsel in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina are avidly seeking to enforce the Ecuadorian judgment. And most disturbingly, the enforcing courts are listening, with an Argentine court ruling on January 30 that 40 percent of Chevron’s local affiliates’ revenues should be frozen pending enforcement.
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