The former chief executive of Brazilian iron ore miner Vale received an anonymou...
SAO PAULO - The former chief executive of Brazilian iron ore miner Vale received an anonymous email weeks before the deadly collapse of a tailings dam at Brumadinho in January 2019 warning about “dams at their limit,” according to the findings of an exhaustive congressional report on the disaster.
The congressional investigative committee report, written by leftist congressman Rogerio Correia and released last week after five months of hearings, cited the email episode as evidence that Vale’s senior management, including Schvartsman, was aware ahead of the dam collapse - which killed more than 250 people - that there were safety issues with the facility used to store mining waste.
Schvartsman was removed from the CEO job in early March at the urging of prosecutors who said in a letter to the board that his and other top Vale executives’ continued presence at the company posed “immeasurable risks to society.” The claims about the anonymous email and Schvartsman’s demand that the sender be identified were first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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