Brazilian dredge owner fined $12m for ripping up part of Cuyuni River bank

The damaged Cuyuni River bank (Ministry of Natural Resources photo)

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.