The Federal Police (PF) launched, this Wednesday (5), Operation Stone to repress the activity of illegal mining of ore in quarries located in the municipalities of Bom Jardim and Nova Friburgo, in the mountainous region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. A man was arrested in flagrante delicto for exploiting raw materials without authorization and taken to the Federal Police Station in Macaé, in the north of Rio de Janeiro, for the formalities of arrest registration. During the investigations, the federal police took to the streets to execute six search and seizure warrants issued by the 1st Federal Court of Nova Friburgo. The action was supported by the National Mining Agency, the Regional Labor Management in Nova Friburgo and the Public Ministry of Labor, in the districts of Amparo, in Nova Friburgo, and São José do Ribeirão, in Bom Jardim. responsible for carrying out mineral extraction activities without authorization from the regulatory bodies and without the respective license, thus causing environmental damage to the region and characterizing an environmental crime and usurpation of goods, which in itself consists of the exploitation of raw materials without the proper authorization by the Union”, said the PF in a note. Operation Stone also investigates the occurrence of work analogous to slavery. The information indicates that, in one of the targets of the search and seizure warrants, there are workers in a precarious situation and kept in unhealthy conditions. they do not have a formal contract and, as a result, they do not take vacations, do not receive the 13th salary and do not have access to other labor and social security benefits. In addition, the workers do not have safety equipment for individual protection”, added the PF, which also investigates the use of explosives that could be the result of possible diversion of material and illegal possession of an explosive device. will respond, to the extent of their participation, for environmental crimes, extraction of mineral resources without authorization, crimes against the economic order, usurpation of goods belonging to the Union, reduction to a condition analogous to slavery, possession of explosive devices, in addition to other crimes that they may arise in the course of the investigations. The Federal Police informed that it will continue the investigation with the objective of investigating and identifying all those involved.
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