The office, which represents (MG), says it will file a lawsuit in the UK against the mining companies on an argument of illicit conspiracy and induction to the breach of customer contract.
Pogust also says it wants recognition of lawyers to receive their fees.
On November 5, 2015, the. The disaster, and generating impacts on populations of mining and capixabas cities along the Rio Doce Basin.
The office, which represents 620,000 hit by the disaster, claims more than 1.3 billion pounds in the action (about $ 9.8 billion).
The amount charged for the mining companies would be for indemnity and fees not paid by closed agreements without the participation of the Pogust, but which would only have occurred by the pressure exerted by the international processes in which the office operates.
An example would be in a statement by the president of the Supreme Court (STF), Luís Roberto Barroso, who cited action against BHP in London with the companies.
The agreement was closed on October 25, 2024, four days after the start of – conclussed in March.
In the lawyers’ assessment, mining companies acted in a coordinated manner to sabotage the rights of those affected by the disaster, frustrate legitimate legal representations and weaken international processes by negotiating agreements with the victims without the participation of the office.
In addition, they point out that the agreements celebrated in Brazil would have been conditioned to the victims to give up actions abroad.
“The defendants participated, for years, in a coordinated campaign to undermine the justice to my clients, including the operation of Brazil’s repair programs through the Renova Foundation in an ineffective way, obstructing the applicants’ access to legal counseling, financing legal actions to prevent the participation in the United Kingdom and promoting direct agreements that required illegal resignations,” says Tom Goodhead, CEO and Só desk.
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Sought, Vale said it will not comment. “The company manifests itself in the file.”
Samarco also said it would not comment.
Already BHP stated that “continues to believe that Brazil is the most appropriate, effective and efficient place for compensation and repair actions for the breach of the Fundão dam from Samarco.”
“We rejected the de facto and law allegations made in the letter sent by the English office Pogust Goodhead,” he says in a statement. “The potential demand (still being filed) has no merit and BHP will present a defense at the appropriate time.”
The mining company also reported that compensation and repair measures have been implemented by Samarco and Renova Foundation in Brazil since 2015 through several programs under the supervision of the country’s cuts.
He argued that the programs were conceived and implemented in conjunction with the national authorities, “being the new agreement of the Rio Doce Basin, October 2024, the latest milestone of this trajectory.”
“So far, approximately R $ 59 billion have been allocated to repair and compensation actions and approximately R $ 111 billion additional began to be paid by Samarco, following the 20 -year commitment to the Brazilian authorities.”
BHP also stated that those who received compensation under Brazilian indemnity programs requested compensation freely and “own initiative” and was properly represented by “local Brazilian lawyers, who received the fees due to them under these programs.”
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