Australia’s Westpac Bank Apologizes for Money Laundering, Links to Child Abuse Funds November 22, 2019 By Peter Vercoe Westpac Banking Corp.’s board stood behind its management team on Friday, offering embattled chief executive Brian Hartzer some respite from...
Public Consultation Launched to Help Set Global Standards for Tailings Dams November 15, 2019 By Barbara Lewis A six-week public consultation launched [in London] on Friday will help set global standards to improve mining safety, aiming to...
Vale’s ‘Negligence’ May Have Cost Lives, Says Brazil Mining Regulator November 12, 2019 By Jake Spring and Christian Plumb Brazil’s mining regulator on Tuesday blasted iron ore miner Vale SA for failing to disclose problems with a mining dam...
Vale CEO Received Emailed Warning Ahead of Brazil Dam Collapse: Report November 5, 2019 By Christian Plumb The former chief executive of Brazilian iron ore miner Vale received an anonymous email weeks before the deadly collapse of...
Brazil Police Accuse Mining Firm Vale, Auditor of Fraud Related to Deadly Dam Collapse September 23, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazilian federal police proposed criminal charges against Vale SA, auditor TÜV SÜD and 13 of their employees, alleging fraud in...
Atlantia CEO Resigns 13 Months After Fatal Genoa Bridge Collapse September 19, 2019 By Tommaso Ebhardt and Daniele Lepido Atlantia SpA Chief Executive Officer Giovanni Castellucci resigned as leader of the Benetton family infrastructure unit, 13 months after a...
Probe into Deadly Genoa Bridge Collapse Reveals Falsified Safety Reports: Police September 17, 2019 By Stefano Bernabei and Francesca Landini The long-standing head of Italian infrastructure group Atlantia is ready to step down as a probe into a deadly bridge...
How VW Emissions Scandal Hurt Other German Car Makers’ Reputations and Profits August 7, 2019 The fallout from Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions scandal cost other German car makers billions of dollars in sales, according to new...
Mining Firm Vale Must Fix All Damages from Deadly Dam Collapse: Brazil Court July 10, 2019 A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday convicted mining company Vale SA for damages caused by the deadly rupture of a...
British Hacker Gets 4 Years in Jail for TalkTalk Data Breach June 12, 2019 By Jonathan Browning A British man who hacked TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc, blackmailed executives and offered to supply customer data has been jailed...