The were already held in preventive detention.
Among them are government inspectors and meat-packing staff
facing charges of corruption, falsification, adulteration in food products, etc.
Flavio Evers Cassou, an employee at Seara Alimentos (JBS),
is among those indicted. The company said he's not part of its executive corps.
André Baldissera and Roney Nogueira dos Santos, director and
manager at BRF, respectively, have also been indicted. It is a major poultry
processing company.
The federal police are investigating 21 meat processing
plants and 33 federal sanitary inspectors.
After the investigation was announced, dozens of countries temporarily
suspended Brazilian meat imports.
Since then, Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) has
conducted a special investigation and found sanitary problems in eight out of
302 meat samples collected.
If you think it couldn't happen here, then you haven't been a close follower of my decades of reporting.
