A Brazilian dredge owner has been fined $12m for destruction of a section of the bank of the Cuyuni River.
Stabroek News was told that the registered owner of the dredge is Jadar Lopes Acevedo, a Brazilian national. The dredge identifier is SD 19041.
Sources tell Stabroek News that a miner had lodged a complaint about the Brazilian-owned dredge destroying a section of the bank of the Cuyuni River. Approximately 250 cubic meters of the buffer area was mined, sources say.