BRUMADINHO, Brazil—Brazilian state prosecutors charged Vale SA’s former CEO Fabio Schvartsman and 10 others from the mining company with homicide Tuesday in an effort to hold it to account for last year’s dam collapse that killed 270 people. Prosecutors for the state of Minas Gerais also leveled homicide charges at five individuals at Germany’s TÜV SÜD, the auditing company that certified the mine-waste dam as safe only months before it gave way. All 16 individuals, as well as both companies as entities, were also charged...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 21, 2020 15:56 UTC