AGAIN NGOS AND THEIR ALLIED INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS LIE WITH IMPUNITY, TRYING TO AFFECT OUR GOOD NAME AND HURT THOUSANDS OF PERUVIANS IN THE AMAZON
On December 1, the Ojo Público portal, a sounding board for a campaign of judicial and media harassment against our company, reported that the group made up of NGOs and their allied indigenous organizations presented in The Hague, Netherlands, a complaint against the company Louis Dreyfus Company BV (an end customer of our industrial plant) before the National Contact Point (NCP) of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, for allegedly having incurred non-compliance and due diligence duties in contract the acquisition of our product: Oil Palm.
In this regard, we reiterate once again the following:
1. OCHOSUR since the beginning of its operations in Ucayali in 2016 has not cut down a single tree.
2. Our palm estates were acquired in 2016, in a completely legal and transparent manner from a first-class trust company and are registered in the Public Registries of Peru, without any type of charge or contingency of any kind.
3. We do not operate on ancestral lands of any native community. This false and baseless complaint promoted by these same NGOs has been rejected by all levels of the judiciary in Peru and by the highest regional government authorities.
4. The same Santa Clara de Uchunya Community, our neighbor that recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, has publicly denied these organizations and has requested that they stop using its name to fabricate conflicts.
5. To date, our company is not part of any investigation for deforestation and there is no ruling or sentence against it from any competent authority.
6. We are a formal company, a leader in Ucayali and the Peruvian jungle, committed to the sustainable development of the region, the protection of forests and their biodiversity. We operate in strict compliance with Peruvian environmental regulations and are one of the first companies in the sector to operate with a circular economy, in addition to using organic fertilizers and developing biocorridors.
7. Unlike what is repeatedly reported by these organizations that insult us, we have been investing with our own resources in the reforestation of areas of land within our property and we are committed to the conservation of forests near our plantations.
8. To date, our company is processing, also in full compliance with Peruvian legislation, its Environmental Adequacy Program.
(PAMA) for its farms, and our industrial plant has a duly approved Environmental Impact Study (EIA).
9. We are firm defenders of human rights and we have never received, from any Peruvian government agency, a ruling or decision to the contrary.
10. Our activity today directly benefits more than 22,000 Peruvians in the Peruvian Amazon, generating not only well-being and development for our neighbors and Ucayali, but has created the exact opposite effect that these organizations that harass us denounce: Palm Oil It has become an effective brake against deforestation and illicit activities that plague the Peruvian Amazon, providing a dignified and sustainable alternative to thousands of Peruvians and their families.
We urge any Peruvian or international entity, truly concerned about the aforementioned issues, to contact us, visit Ucayali and learn about our operations in situ to verify our statements.
At the same time, we alert national and international public opinion not to be surprised by false and malicious complaints that are part of a scheme of judicial and media harassment that we follow and will continue to confront with the truth.
Pucallpa, December 2022.
