If Eike Batista was a superstitious man, he would probably track the start of his spectacular fall from grace to one night in March last year, when his eldest son appeared on the news in a blood-spattered white T-shirt. Twenty-year-old Thor had been driving his father’s Mercedes – the one the Brazilian oil and mining baron normally displayed in the living room of his Rio de Janeiro mansion – when he ran over and killed Wanderson Pereira dos Santos, a 30-year-old labourer, on the city’s impoverished fringe.
如果埃克?巴蒂斯塔(Eike Batista)是一個迷信的人,他可能會認為自己戲劇性的衰落始于去年3月的一個夜晚。那天晚上,他的長子穿著一件血跡斑斑的白色T恤,成了新聞的主角。他的長子名叫托爾(Thor),今年20歲,一直開著父親的奔馳車——這輛車通常被這位巴西石油采礦業大亨展示在里約熱內盧家中的客廳里。當晚,在里約熱內盧郊區的貧民區,托爾驅車撞上了30歲的工人萬德森?佩雷拉?多斯桑托斯(Wanderson Pereira dos Santos),致其死亡。