Cabrera Hid Financial Ties to Remediation Company, Petroecuador
Chevron has revealed new information showing that the author of a report recommending the company pay $27 billion in damages has a conflict of interest that he illegally hid from the court. The report's author, Richard Cabrera, is the majority owner of an oil field remediation company, CAMPET, that stands to gain financially from a judgment against Chevron. CAMPET was registered to perform oilfield remediation and other services for Petroecuador.
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Motion to Strike Filed in Ecuadorian Court
Spanish (106 KB) | English (112 KB)
Supporting Exhibits
Articles of Incorporation for CAMPET (445 KB)
Letter Appointing Cabrera General Manager of CAMPET (537 KB)
List of Services CAMPET Registered to Provide for PetroEcuador (439 KB)
Certificate of Swearing In of Cabrera as Expert (15 MB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court Addressing His Qualifications, Impartiality (1.5 MB)
Cabrera's Second Letter to Court About His Ability To Fulfill the Role of Expert (545 KB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court on Work Plan and Expert Examination (681 KB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court Requesting 30-Day Extension for His Report (457 KB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court Asserting Investigation was Done Impartially (10 MB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court on Sample Collecting (472 KB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court on Contract Expiring (840 KB)
Letter from Cabrera to Court on Accusations of Fraud, Control Samples (4.2 MB)
Various Letters: Certificate from the Commercial Registrar of the Canton of Quito Confirming that Cabrera Served as General Manager of CAMPET since 2003 (1.1 MB)
Superintendencia of Companies Showing Current Registration of CAMPET (588 KB)
Chevron's Response to the Cabrera Report
The Ecuadoran court handling the lawsuit against Chevron has abandoned the due process guarantees mandated by Ecuadorian law, eliminated the plaintiffs' burden of proof, and substituted in its place the work of a patently unqualified mining engineer, Richard Cabrera.
Cabrera has suggested a wholly illegitimate and unsubstantiated damage and penalty recommendation against Chevron in excess of $27 billion. Cabrera was not only paid solely by the plaintiffs, but he openly relied on them to staff his effort while seeking to obstruct Chevron’s representatives from even observing his work. In fact, major portions of his submissions to the court are cribbed from the plaintiffs’ own submissions, if not written by them directly. His work product is devoid of scientific content, lacks even the most basic evidentiary support, and assesses monetary relief for alleged environmental damage and health claims he has never even bothered to investigate, inspect or verify.
Chevron's response draws from 12 expert reports in a variety of disciplines, including: economics, anthropology, ecology, chemistry, remediation and epidemiology:
12 Significant Flaws of Cabrera's Report (31 KB)
Executive Summary of Chevron's Response From Sept. 15, 2008 (188 KB)
Executive Summary of Chevron's Response From Feb. 12, 2009 (51 KB)