Apr 29, 2021 20:00:00

A lawyer who has filed a lawsuit against oil major Chevron for environmental and health damage has been detained for more than 600 days.

Oil majors occupy most of the market share by vertically integrating all stages from oil mining, production, transportation, refining, and sales with capital and political power. A lawyer who sued Chevron , one of the major oil majors, has been detained at home since August 2019 due to the counterattack.

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Steven Donziger is a lawyer who has been detained at home for over 600 days. In 1993, Dozinger joined a legal team investigating environmental pollution in the Amazon region of Ecuador and visited the site.

What Mr. Dozinger saw there was a drilling outpost operated by Texaco, which would later become a Chevron subsidiary, and an Olympic pool-sized hole for pouring waste oil from the quarry. According to a survey, waste oil leaked from this hole is flowing into rivers used by indigenous peoples for drinking and other domestic purposes, and the incidence of stomach cancer, liver cancer, laryngeal cancer, childhood leukemia, etc. is increasing. (PDF file) The result was obtained.

Based on this result, about 30,000 indigenous people filed a class action lawsuit against Texaco in 1993, and it was Mr. Dozinger who became a lawyer for the plaintiffs. The proceedings were disputed in a court in New York, where Texaco's headquarters were located at the start, but Chevron, who became a defendant after the acquisition of Texaco, requested a hearing in Ecuador. In response, the New York court granted Chevron the condition of accepting the decision in Ecuador and then transferred jurisdiction to Ecuador. As a result of the proceedings being contested by the Supreme Court of Ecuador, the plaintiff's allegations were granted in 2011, and Chevron will be fined $ 9.5 billion.

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However, Chevron replied that he would accept Ecuador's ruling, saying, 'Mr. Dozinger and other plaintiffs bribed court officials for $ 500,000 and forged evidence. Mr. Dozinger countered Chevron. It is the black curtain of a cross-border plan to raise billions of dollars (hundreds of billions of yen), 'he refused to pay damages. He has filed a lawsuit in New York City for violating the RICO law , which applies to organized crime in the Mafia.

Judge Luis Kaplan of the Federal District Court for Manhattan, who was in charge of the hearing, said Mr. Dozinger and the plaintiffs were involved in the criminal acts of extortion, bribery and money laundering, and the Ecuadorian Supreme Court charged Chevron with millions of dollars ( The payment of damages (hundreds of millions of yen) is invalid, and Mr. Dozinger has ruled that he is obliged to pay the statutory costs of millions of dollars for Chevron. Mr. Dozinger appealed, but Judge Kaplan ordered Mr. Dozinger to submit it to Chevron to check the contents of electronic devices such as PCs and telephones. Judge Kaplan charged Dozinger with contempt of court when he denied the lawyer client's confidentiality privilege because it contained confidential information from other clients.

And in August 2019, Mr. Dozinger was ordered to continue his detention at home while waiting for a trial of contempt of court. A GPS ankle for surveillance is attached to Mr. Dozinger's left ankle. 29 Nobel laureates, actor Alec Baldwin , known for 'The Hunt for Red October! ', And former Pink Floyd vocalist Roger Waters have voiced a series of decisions. However, as of April 2021, Mr. Dozinger has been detained.