"SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police arrested eight employees of mining firm Vale SA on Friday, accused by state prosecutors of covering up weaknesses at a dam that collapsed and likely killed more than 300 people.
Police also executed 14 search warrants as part of the probe of the country’s deadliest mining disaster, prosecutors in the mining state of Minas Gerais said.
The arrests and search warrants targeted employees of Vale as well as German auditing firm TÜV SÜD, which had certified the dam as stable."
Eduardo Simões and Marta Nogueira report for Reuters February 15, 2019.
Source: Reuters, 02/18/2019
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