A Brazilian state prosecutor expects to bring criminal charges \u201cin the next few days\u201d against miner Vale over a mining waste dam collapse that killed at least 259 people, even as the prosecutor\u2019s federal counterpart continues to investigate the case.<\/p>\n
Andressa de Oliveira Lanchotti, coordinator for the task force of state prosecutors investigating the disaster, told Reuters they expect to indict 15 to 20 people, including executives from Vale and employees from German inspection firm T\u00dcV S\u00dcD – as well as the companies themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we can take away from the investigations is there were several factors pointing to risk – the risk was not unknown,\u201d Lanchotti said, disputing Vale\u2019s contention that it had no way of knowing that the dam that unleashed an avalanche of mining waste on the Brazilian town of Brumadinho in January 2019 posed a danger.<\/p>\n
Federal police in September proposed criminal charges against Vale, T\u00dcV S\u00dcD and 13 of their employees, accusing the companies of working with falsified documents attesting to the stability of the dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Brazilian state prosecutor expects to bring criminal charges \u201cin the next few days\u201d against miner Vale over a mining waste dam collapse that killed at least 259 people, even as the prosecutor\u2019s federal counterpart continues to investigate the case.<\/p>\n
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