Rio de Janeiro: A Brazilian court has fined executives and companies including French transportation giant Alstom nearly US$50mil for a 2007 collapse at a subway construction site that killed seven people, in a ruling seen by AFP.
A judge for the Sao Paulo state court of justice last Friday ordered six then-directors of the municipal metro company and seven firms involved in the project to pay a collective fine of 240 million reais or about US$48mil.
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