Beneath the redactions of a legal brief before a tribunal in the Netherlands, lawyers for the Ecuadorean government unveiled a new piece of evidence to support their citizens' embattled $9.8 billion environmental judgment against Chevron.
Provided exclusively to Courthouse News, the leaked text describes a still-secret forensic report analyzing the computer hard drives of Ecuadorean Judge Nicolas Zambrano, who issued a verdict in Lago Agrio finding Chevron liable for oil devastation to the Amazon jungle.
It has been nearly a year since New York's U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan found that the judgment had been "procured by corrupt means."
Kaplan had based his finding largely on allegations by Zambrano's predecessor Alberto Guerra, the first Ecuadorean judge to hear the Chevron case.
Now a key Chevron witness, Guerra testified that the Ecuadorean's lead attorney Steven Donziger and his colleagues promised him a $500,000 cut of the potential ... Read More
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