Justice keeps arrests of engineers for tragedy in Brumadinho

DR [19659004] After dismissing the petition habeas corpus last Friday, January 1 against three employees of Vale temporarily arrested January 29. The court decided to keep the two engineers of TÜV SÜD in prison. They had also been arrested on March 29, as well as the three Vale employees in connection with a suspected fraud operation in the documents of the Feijão mine dam in Brumadinho. .

The decision to deny habeas corpus to engineers was made by Judge Pedro Vergara of the Minas Gerais Court of Justice (TJMG), according to the online process of juvenile justice.

According to the Minas Gerais Prison Administration Secretariat (SEAP), the five investigators (three Vale employees and two TÜV SÜD engineers) were still detained on Sunday (3) at Nelson Hungria Maximum Security Penitentiary. of Contagem, in the metropolitan area of ​​Belo Horizonte. The duration of the pre-trial detention is 30 days.