Chevron Corporation its obligations under international treaties. The tribunal held that a $9.5 billion pollution judgment by Ecuador’s Supreme Court against Chevron “was procured through fraud, bribery and corruption and was based on claims that had been already settled and released by the Republic of Ecuador years earlier.” Ecuador’s attorney general plans to appeal the tribunal’s ruling saying, “It worries us that the tribunal is asking a country to lift a sentence of one of its courts that was issued as part of a dispute between private parties." Chevron continues to take oil from the Amazon region at large. El Segundo (CA),
MTN $5.2 billion fine plan. The fine of $5.2 billion was reduced to $1.7 billion. According to africanews, "For the first year, they paid N80 billion, after paying the initial N50 billion, and they will have to pay for three years until they will complete the N330 billion". The telecommunication company recently paid additional 30 billion Naira to offset part of the initial fine of 330 billion Naira fined. MTN $5.2 billion fine MTN Group, a major multi-national telecom company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, was handed down a $5.2 billion fine by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).