For the better part of two years, investigators say, the head of Brazil's mining regulator was doing favors for a businessman his own agency was supposed to be watching.
The Federal Police recommended the indictment of Mauro Henrique Moreira Sousa, head of the National Mining Agency (ANM) since December 2022, on a charge of administrative advocacy — using public office to advance a private interest.
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