Chevron's Key Witness Exposed as Paid Liar in Ecuador
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In March 2014, U.S. Judge Lewis Kaplan determined that the US$9.5 billion in compensation awarded to a group of Ecuadoreans for environmental contamination in the Amazon as the result of Chevron's oil extraction activities had been secured fraudulently.
Environmental activist Cyntia Zapata shows a plastic bottle with some oil waste from a pool of waste that Chevron left behind in the fields they operated in the Amazon, Ecuador, Sep. 17, 2013.
Kaplan's ruling was largely predicated on the testimony of a man named Albero Guerra, who claimed that the presiding Ecuadorean judge, Nicolas Zambrano, had offered to write an agreement favorable to the plaintiffs in exchange for a US$500,000 bribe, which Guerra expected to also cash in on.
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