BNP Revives Claims of Attorney Witness Tampering in Sudan Case

BNP Paribas SA accused opposing counsel of witness tampering, inflating its class size, and other ethics breaches, as the bank pushed back on what it painted as a pressure campaign to force it to settle class action claims that it aided Sudanese violence.

Gibson Dunn’s Barry Berke wrote in a letter to lawyers for the class of Sudanese refugees on Friday that the misconduct allegations will be aired at an “upcoming evidentiary hearing” the judge said he’d hold down the road.

“You succeeded in delaying an evidentiary hearing on Plaintiffs’ counsel’s misconduct until after trial, but that misconduct cannot and ...