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including a declaration sworn under penalty of perjury, that falsely represent that Cabrera was an<br />

independent expert and that otherwise misrepresent the relationship between Cabrera and the<br />

RICO Defendants.<br />

369. Defendant Yanza has committed numerous mail and wire fraud violations,<br />

including those identified in Appendix B in which Yanza used or caused to be used the mail or<br />

wires in furtherance of the RICO Defendants' scheme to defraud. Yanza has committed wire<br />

fraud and engaged in money laundering by knowingly causing funds to be transported,<br />

transmitted, or transferred from the United States to Selva Viva, the Front, and other parties with<br />

the intent that such payments would fund the RICO Defendants' criminal activity. Yanza has<br />

also engaged in extortion of Chevron and fraudulent conduct by participating in a campaign of<br />

public attacks based on false and misleading statements about Chevron and the Lago Agrio<br />

Litigation (including in a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative), by manufacturing and causing<br />

to be manufactured false evidence, and by applying pressure to Ecuadorian government officials<br />

to procure baseless criminal charges against Chevron's attorneys. In addition, Yanza has<br />

engaged in obstruction of justice by filing or causing to be filed in multiple U.S. courts<br />

documents, including declarations sworn to under penalty of perjury, that falsely represent that<br />

Cabrera was an independent expert and that otherwise misrepresent the RICO Defendants'<br />

interactions with Cabrera.<br />

370. Defendant the Front, through the actions of its agents Defendants Fajardo<br />

and Yanza, among others, has committed numerous predicate acts, including mail and wire<br />

fraud, money laundering, and extortion. The mail and wire fraud violations include those<br />

identified in Appendix B in which the Front used or caused to be used the mail or wires in<br />

furtherance of the RICO Defendants' scheme to defraud. The Front has also committed several<br />

wire fraud violations and multiple acts of money laundering by causing funds to be transferred<br />

by Kohn and/or Kohn Swift from the United States to Ecuador, acting as a conduit of those<br />

funds, and then distributing those funds to finance the RICO Defendants' illegal scheme. In<br />

addition, the Front has engaged in numerous acts of extortion of Chevron and fraudulent conduct<br />

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