After One Auditor Flunked Brazil Dam, Vale Found Another Who Passed It
 

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Vale SA, the owner of a mine-waste dam that collapsed this year, killing more than 180 people, dismissed an auditor that refused to certify the dam as safe in September, according to an initial probe by police and prosecutors.

The Brazilian mining giant replaced the auditor with T"UV S"UD, a German certification company, according to a document summarizing the early findings of a task force investigating the failed dam. T"UV S"UD, which had earlier certified the dam’s safety in June, signed off on the dam’s stability again in…




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