FILE PHOTO: General view of mud-filled Paraopeba river, after a tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA collapsed, in Mario Campos near Brumadinho, Brazil, January 27, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Prosecutors for the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais appealed to the country's Supreme Court (STF) on Friday over a ruling that transferred to the federal judiciary a criminal case surrounding the deadly collapse of a tailings dam in 2019 that killed 270 people.
In January 2020, state prosecutors charged Fabio Schvartsman, the former chief executive of mining company Vale SA, and 15 other people with homicide for the dam disaster at a mine near the town of Brumadinho. But later that year a court ruled the case should proceed through federal rather than state court.
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