Brazilian prosecutors' office charges Vale, T?oeV S?oeD and 16 people in relation to Brumadinho disaster

January 22, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com / Article Link

The Minas Gerais state prosecutors' office, MPMG, has charged miner Vale, consulting company T?oeV S?oeD and 16 people - including former Vale chief executive Fabio Schvartsman - for homicide and environmental crimes, according to a document made public on Tuesday January 21.

The charges are related to the disaster in Brumadinho on January 25, 2019, when the rupture of a tailings dam in Vale's C??rrego do Feij??o mine flooded a nearby community and led to the death of 270 people.
Charges of environmental crimes extend to Vale itself and T?oeV S?oeD, an auditing company which certified the structure's safety standards.

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