Former Vale CEO charged with homicide in Brazil; Prosecutors file charges against 16 people for 2019 dam collapse

摘要

FORMER CHIEF executive of Vale SA, Fabio Schvartsman, is one of 16 people charged with homicide by prosecutors in Brazil for their roles in the tailings dam failure at the Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerias that left more than 250 people dead in 2019. Reuters reported that Brazilian state prosecutors filed the charges on Jan. 21 against Schvartsman and other executives from Vale and German consulting firm TUV SUD, the company responsible for inspecting the dam that collapsed on Jan. 25, 2019.