By letter dated April 23, 2008 Claimant requested the Tribunal to admit evidence obtained that same day from a journalist, Mr. Neil Barnett, relating to a corrupt payment allegedly requested from Mr. Henrique Weil, EDF’s Chairman, by officials of the Respondent (“New Evidence”). The alleged request for a corrupt payment had been previously claimed by Claimant during this proceeding. The New Evidence consists of an audio tape and a transcript, both in the Romanian and English languages, of the recording of a conversation alleged to have been held on October 19, 2001 between Ms. Liana Iacob (member of the staff of the then Prime Minister, Adrian Nastase) and Mr. Marco Katz (Chief Operating Officer of ASRO), at Ms. Iacob’s home in Bucharest.