Prosecutors in Brazil are demanding $10.6 billion from the US oil company Chevron for environmental damage caused when one of its oil wells leaked off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The federal prosecutors also asked the court to immediately suspend the operations in Brazil of Chevron and its drilling contractor, Transocean.
The Brazilian government has already fined Chevron more than $28 million for the spill at the beginning of November, the BBC reports.
