This past Wednesday, Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny–the heir to a construction materials group that he sold in the 1980s–was convicted on charges of aggravated manslaughter in the deaths of ...

The courtroom in Turin was crowded. People had to wait on their feet until the judge finished to read the sentence. They were asbestos victims relatives,The parents and relatives of Eternit's victims ...

A Swiss billionaire and a Belgian baron were found guilty of over 3,000 alleged asbestos-related deaths and sentenced to 16 years each in prison by an Italian court on Monday, AFP reports. Stephan ...

It’s been twelve long years since a criminal investigation was first opened against Stephan Schmidheiny. Schmidheiny is one of the wealthiest men in Europe. And he was a majority owner of Eternit, at ...

Billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny was acquitted this week of complicity in 3,000 deaths related to the use of asbestos in factories formerly part of his chemicals empire, Eternit. Italy's supreme court ...

In 1976, when he was 29 years old, Schmidheiny took over the Swiss Eternit Group, a business founded by his grandfather. The company had become one of Europe’s largest asbestos firms, making cement ...

Tangling with the asbestos industry in Brazil is not for the faint of heart. Federal labor inspector Fernanda Giannasi knows this better than anyone, having endured threats, professional ostracism, ...

An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered a Belgian man and a Swiss man to stand trial for alleged negligence leading to hundreds of deaths linked to asbestos plants. Prosecutors say Stephan Schmidheiny ...