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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Shweta Sharma

Brazil sues Chinese electric carmaker BYD over ‘slave-like’ conditions of workers

Brazilian prosecutors have filed a lawsuit accusing electric carmaker BYD of human trafficking and keeping its workers in “slavery-like conditions” in its biggest market outside China.

The suit seeks over £33m in moral damages from the Chinese EV giant as well as contractors JinJiang Construction Brazil and Tecmonta, according to a statement by Brazil’s Public Labour Prosecutor's Office, or MPT.

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