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雪佛龙谴责厄瓜多尔上诉法院的非法决定

2012年1月3日圣拉蒙 - 克佛龙公司（纽约证券交易所代码：CVX）今天bob体育官方客服宣布，三名临时法官小组宣布，省委在厄瓜多尔省拉古阿古里奥法院的上诉法院主持的三个临时法官议定书在涉及Texaco Petroleum公司的环境诉讼中，维护2011年2月的法院裁决。

Chevron continues to seek recourse through legal proceedings outside of Ecuador. In the arbitration proceedings Chevron instituted against Ecuador in The Hague under the U.S.-Ecuador Bilateral Investment Treaty, the Tribunal issued an order on February 9, 2011 requiring Ecuador to take all measures at its disposal to prevent enforcement of the Lago Agrio judgment until further order of the Tribunal. The Tribunal also recorded that if it were established that any judgment made by an Ecuadorian court in the Lago Agrio case was a breach of an obligation Ecuador owed to Chevron as a matter of international law, any loss arising from the enforcement of such judgment (within and without Ecuador) may be losses for which Ecuador would be responsible to Chevron under international law. Chevron also is pursuing an action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Lago Agrio plaintiffs' representatives for violations of the federal racketeering statute, common-law fraud, and other relief based upon the overwhelming evidence of their fraud and corruption.

In response to the ruling, Chevron issued the following statement:

“今天的决定是厄瓜多尔司法主任政治化和腐败的另一个明显例子，这些司法司法犯了这一欺诈性案件。拉各国通过腐败和欺诈的计划采购了，其中大部分地区被捕获并在原告中纪念纪念。“代表”自己的电子邮件和通信。他们的不端行为包括制定与法院官员的专家报告，制造证据，贿赂和斗争，为法官的恐吓运动，甚至是判决本身的重婚部分。

"Evidence of these crimes has been provided to Ecuador's courts and prosecutors, but authorities there have taken no corrective actions. In the United States, however, no less than eight federal judges have found that the trial in Ecuador has been marred by the fraud and misconduct of the plaintiffs' representatives. And an international Tribunal presiding in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has ordered Ecuador to take all measures at its disposal to suspend enforcement of the Lago Agrio judgment within and without Ecuador.

“雪佛龙并不相信厄瓜多尔裁决在任何观察法治的法庭上都可以强制执行。该公司将继续寻求追究这一欺诈的肇事者。”

Background

有关雪佛龙上诉的信息可以找到这里. Chevron is defending itself against false allegations that it is responsible for environmental and social harms in the Amazon region of Ecuador. Chevron has never conducted oil production operations in Ecuador, and its subsidiary, Texaco Petroleum (TexPet), fully remediated its share of environmental impacts arising from its participation in an oil producing consortium with Petroecuador prior to 1992. After the remediation work was certified by all agencies of the Ecuadorian government responsible for oversight, TexPet received a complete release from Ecuador's national, provincial and municipal governments prior to being acquired by Chevron in 2001. Petroecuador was the majority owner of the consortium in which TexPet participated until 1992 and has been the sole owner of greatly expanded oil operations in the former concession area over the past two decades. Last month, Petroecuador announced it will complete its remediation of the sites it is responsible for at a cost of $70 million. This figure stands in contrast to the multi-billion dollar judgment affirmed today.

Published: January 2012