They arrested 5 people for the collapse of the dam that left at least 65 dead and more than 200 missing in Brazil.

At least five people were arrested this Tuesday by the authorities accused of having modified the technical control documents the security of the dam whose break has caused a tragedy in Brazil that already adds 65 dead and 279 missing, official sources informed.

According to the authorities, two of them – Detained in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil – they are engineers who did not work directly with the Vale mining companybut their services had been outsourced to another company.

The other three jailed suspects were direct employees of Vale and were captured in the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais (southeast).

The suspects were arrested from temporary wayduring a period of 30 days, while the authorities conduct investigations that corroborate suspicions of fraud in the security reports.

In addition to arrest warrants issued by the regional judge of Minas Gerais, the authorities have also moved forward seven raids in companies recruited by the Vale and residences of people related to the mining company.

The goal of the researchers is to search technical documentation contracted companies that witnessed the safety of the dam that broke and corroborated if they were changed.

The operation is in the hands of the agents of the prosecutor's office and the regional and national police forces.

Friday afternoon, one of the dams of mining giant Vale located in an iron mine in the jurisdiction of Brumadinho, municipality of Minas Gerais, a river with mineral residues and mud buried the company's facilities and various housing in rural areas.

The tragedy adds to the disaster that occurred three years ago when, in the municipality of Mariena, also in Minas Gerais, broke a dike of the company Samarco, owned 50% by Vale, killing 19 people and the most Great environmental disaster of the history of Brazil.

Due to the tragedy, Vale Mining Company, the largest iron trading company in the world, has received two fines: one of the Brazilian Institute of the environment of 250 million reais ($ 67.5 million) and another from the government of Minas Gerais of 99 million reais ($ 26.7 million).

In addition, since Friday, justice has blocked a total of 12,000 million reais (about $ 3.18 billion) the accounts of the corporation to secure the payment of compensation to the victims and environmental repairs and damages.