NGOs, social movements and politicians file criminal denounce against the Minister of the Environment

Ceará’s Bar Association, Greenpeace and other entities and NGOs, in alliance with politicians and social movements representatives, presented a formal denunciation to the Brazilian Attorney-General’s Office against the Minister of the Environment.

They took action based on a story from newspaper Folha de S. Paulo which detailed the participation of environmental infractors in a reunion with minister Salles in December 2019. That meeting resulted in the suspension of federal inspection and control in the Extractivist Reserve Chico Mendes in the Amazon region.