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Chiquita Brands International must pay $38.3 million in damages to eight families Colombian Man A Florida jury said Monday that the man was killed by paramilitary forces in that state.
Chiquita was ordered to pay fines by a US court in 2007. $25 million fine To resolve criminal charges of doing business with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group.
Chiquita acknowledged in the case that it had made protection payments to protect workers between 2001 and 2004.
A Florida jury has ruled that Chiquita Brands International should pay $38.3 million in damages to the families of eight Colombian men killed by paramilitary forces in Colombia. (Fabien Sommer/Photo Alliance via Getty Images)
jury In a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the court said in its ruling on Monday that Chiquita knowingly provided AUC with substantial assistance in the form of cash payments and other forms of support sufficient to create a foreseeable risk of harm.
The jury said the men were killed by AUC, but that Chiquita had failed to prove that its support for AUC was the result of imminent harm to the company or its employees.
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“While this verdict does not bring my murdered husband or son back to life, it sets the record straight and places responsibility for terrorism financing where it belongs – on Chiquita,” Agnieszka Frisman, a lawyer at Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, who is representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
Chiquita did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
