Dow Jones – Chevron Submits Amended Complaint To Block Ecuador Ruling
Date: Apr 21, 2011
Media coverage of Chevron’s filing of an amended complaint as a result of new evidence of fraud that has come to light:
Chevron Corp. (CVX) on Thursday said it has filed an amended complaint in a New York federal court to block enforcement and recognition of a multibillion- dollar ruling against the energy giant, alleging further fraud and corruption in the case.
The amended complaint cites newly discovered evidence, according to Chevron, that the Ecuadorean indigenous plaintiffs’ lawyers and consultants, at a minimum, “provided clandestine assistance to the Ecuadorian court in drafting the judgment against Chevron.”
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