Brazil charges ex-Vale CEO over dam spill

By Marta Nogueira
Updated January 22 2020 - 8:38am, first published 8:36am
Mud and waste from a deadly dam collapse in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil in January 2019.
Mud and waste from a deadly dam collapse in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil in January 2019.

Brazilian state prosecutors have charged Fabio Schvartsman, the former chief executive of mining giant Vale SA, and 15 other people with homicide for a dam disaster last year that killed more than 250 people.

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