Lawsuit Targets Chevron “Dirty Tricks” Operative Over Ecuador Video Corruption Scandal

[Judi Lynn]

September 14, 2010 02:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Amazon Defense Coalition: Lawsuit Targets Chevron “Dirty Tricks” Operative Over Ecuador Video Corruption Scandal
Chevron’s Diego Borja Faces Deposition in U.S. Over Activities In Ecuador

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chevron employee Diego Borja, the oil giant’s self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative in Ecuador, has been targeted with a subpoena and deposition demand in California where he now lives on Chevron’s payroll within miles of its global headquarters, the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal reported today.

Borja, who has worked for Chevron in Ecuador from at least 2004 until the video scandal erupted in 2009, has been taped in a phone conversation saying he has incriminating evidence that would cause Chevron to lose the Ecuador environmental litigation, according to papers filed September 10th in federal court in San Francisco. Chevron paid for Borja to relocate to the United States, where he remains on the company payroll while living in a luxury house abutting a golf course in a gated community.

Borja has failed to turn over the incriminating evidence, but representatives of the plaintiffs have long charged the oil giant with engaging in corrupt practices to undermine the trial.

“The subpoena is important because Borja has bragged about being at the epicenter of Chevron’s fraudulent activities in Ecuador,” said Karen Hinton, spokesperson for the Amazon Defense Coalition.

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