JBS continued to buy cattle from farms with areas embargoed for illegal deforestation, even after being fined around R$25 million (approximately US$ 8 million at the time the fines were issued) in 2017 by the Operation Carne Fria, according to an investigation by Repórter Brasil, the British newspaper The Guardian, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The investigation indicates that the properties belonged to AgroSB, also known as Santa Bárbara, owned by businessman Daniel Dantas, who has a history of socio-environmental violations. At the Lagoa do Triunfo farm—where the deforestation occurred—hundreds of head of cattle were transferred for fattening to another AgroSB property with no environmental infractions, from which the animals were then sold for slaughter at JBS slaughterhouses.