date:Apr 16, 2013
any legal proceedings or of their exact nature, and therefore could not comment.
Several other companies faced fines for buying cattle raised with the use of slave labor, prosecutors said. The cases will go before judges in the states of Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Rondonia where the offences are alleged to have taken place.
We want these companies to stop buying in these areas and in this way, avert further deforestation, Rodrigo Timoteo da Costa e Silva, prosecutor in Mato Grosso state, told