Brazilian police investigating the collapse of a mine-waste dam in January that killed 270 are focusing on how much Vale SA’s chief financial officer and two former senior officials may have known about safety risks at the site
Brazilian police probing the deadly collapse of a Vale SA mine-waste dam are investigating whether the company’s chief financial officer and two former senior executives were aware of structural weaknesses in the barrier before it ruptured, according to a person familiar with the inquiry.
Among other things, police are trying to determine if the CFO, Luciano Siani Pires, who also headed the company’s executive-risk committee, knew enough to have averted the January tragedy in the southeastern town of Brumadinho, which left...
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