BHP, Vale accused of ‘cheating’ UK law firm out of fees
BHP and valet are facing a London case that represents hundreds of thousands of people according to the worst environmental disaster of Brazil, claiming that companies are trying to deceive the company from legal wages by providing settlements.
Anglo-Avustralia mine giant BHP said that he rejected the allegations “completely” and would object to them. Brazil -based multinational multinational valet avoided commenting.
Pogust Goodhead, representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the BHP on the 2015 collapse of the Fundao Dam in Mariana in Southeast Brazil, said that he would look for STG1,3 billion (A2.7 billion dollars) for unpaid fees.
The company represented more than 600,000 Brazilians in the London Supreme Court.
BHP and Vale’s Samarco’s joint venture – the owner of the dam and runs the Samarco joint venture of approximately 130,000 people, he said.
In a legal letter sent on behalf of Pogust Goodhead, lawyers representing the firm claim that BHP, Vale and Samarco put pressure on the plaintiffs to özgür solving their claims well below their real values ”.
Pogust Goodhead also claims that Brazil’s 170 billion-Reais ($ 47 billion) compensation agreement signed with BHP, Vale and Samarco in October 2024, claiming that the plaintiffs prevent the plaintiffs from discussing the agreement with the company or paying their legal wages.
The company said that an extra $ 1 billion ($ A1.6 billion) has participated in cost borrowing costs to finance the British case through the collapse of the dam.
“We reject Pogust Goodhead’s claims and claims completely and discuss the factual and legal foundations,” he said.
“These claims and threats are completely unjust and BHP is rejected and strongly objected to them.”
The BHP spokesman drew attention to the compensation agreement of 2024: “We continue to believe that Brazil is the most suitable, effective and efficient place for compensation for the failure of Fundao Dam, which can be delivered from Samarco.”
It is the latest development in the case after the Supreme Court must face full respect for the court hearing for the parallel case financing of the BHP in Brazil, called the “Letter before the Action olarak, which is necessary as part of Pogust Goodhead’s legal proceedings threat-process.
Meanwhile, BHP is waiting for the trial that Pogust Goodhead is still looking for damage to 36 billion STG after the trial of the underlying case on the dam collapse.
When the dam exploded in 2015, it revealed a wave of toxic mud, which killed 19 people, left thousands of homeless, flooded the forests and polluted the length of the Doce River.
The hearing started in October and ended in March.
The BHP rejects responsibility and says the case has copied the legal proceedings and compensation and repair programs in Brazil.
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