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厄瓜多尔举报人受到Lago Agrio原告律师的威胁

加利福尼亚州圣拉蒙市——2012年12月18日——雪佛龙公司（NYSE:CVX）今天谴责Lago Agrio原告律师采取的恐吓、威胁和骚扰举报人Fernando Reyes的行动，他提供了一份报告sworn declaration提供原告律师在厄瓜多尔受审期间欺诈的内幕信息。在提交雷耶斯的声明之后，原告的律师和公关人员向新闻界发表声明，攻击和诋毁雷耶斯，并以骚扰诉讼威胁他。对此，雪佛龙发表了以下声明：

"Rather than address the substance of Reyes' testimony on the merits, the plaintiffs' representatives hope to intimidate him. Chevron calls upon the authorities to investigate these threats against Reyes. Chevron encourages other whistleblowers who have information about the plaintiffs' lawyers' fraud to come forward."

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雷耶斯是厄瓜多尔石油和环境工程师，曾担任原告律师的顾问。上周三，雪佛龙提交了一份sworn declaration来自雷耶斯的支持fraud and racketeering lawsuit在纽约针对原告律师和支持者的诉讼中，Reyes提供了一份目击者的证词，说明原告律师如何从审判初期就试图操纵审判，欺骗法庭，破坏审判过程，以及参与编写一份欺诈性的“独立”报告。雷耶斯的证词不仅得到了他自己的笔录的证实，也得到了documentsproduced by the plaintiffs' lead American lawyer, Steven Donziger in court-ordered discovery,证词, and outtakes (which can be found athttp://www.juiciocrudo.com/index.php?r=mod/video&id=2&idvid=79在http://www.juiciocrudo.com/index.php？r=mod/video&id=2&idvid=80) from the movie "Crude“唐齐格一次describedReyes as "one of the most qualified engineers and academics in the field."

Reyes' declaration confirms the plaintiffs' lawyers' fraud on multiple levels. Reyes had considerable involvement in the Lago Agrio case for the plaintiffs, first serving as what was represented as an "independent" monitor of court experts and then as a "shadow" advisor to Richard Cabrera, a supposedly-independent court expert. In fact, Reyes introduced Cabrera to Donziger and his co-counsel, and the plaintiffs' lawyers pressured the court in Ecuador to appoint Cabrera to conduct a "global assessment" of environmental conditions in the Oriente region of Ecuador's Amazon. Reyes was also present in a meeting between the plaintiffs' lawyers and consultants and Cabrera before Cabrera was appointed as an independent court expert (video from the meeting can be found athttp://www.juiciocrudo.com/index.php?r=mod/video&id=2&idvid=79在http://www.juiciocrudo.com/index.php？r=mod/video&id=2&idvid=80). Cabrera ultimately submitted a report to the court, described by one of the plaintiffs' consultants as "the single most important technical document for the case," assigning more than $27 billion in damages against Chevron.

Cabrera's report has since been shown to be a fraud, written by the plaintiffs' representatives and passed off as the work of a neutral and independent court appointee. Reyes' declaration describes the process by which the plaintiffs' lawyers sought out someone who, as Donziger put it, would "totally play ball with us and let us take the lead while projecting the image that he is working for the court." The plaintiffs' lawyers were aware of the fraud they were committing: as their scheme to deceive the court was unraveling, Donziger's co-counselwrote, "all of us, your attorneys, might go to jail."

While courts in Ecuador have ignored the evidence of the plaintiffs' lawyers' fraud, even going as far as to include many of "Cabrera's" claims in the去年判决, other courts have not. In an opinion issued in July, a court in the Southern District of New Yorkfoundthat "uncontradicted evidence demonstrates that the report and subsequent responses filed in Cabrera's name were tainted by fraud."

More information on the plaintiffs' lawyers' fraud can befound here. Additional background on the Ecuador litigation can be accessed在这里和在这里。

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出版日期：2012年12月