Lamia, the Bolivian air charter company whose sole airplane crashed in the Colombian mountains with 77 people including a Brazilian football team aboard, was operating in violation of Bolivian labour laws, the country's Labour Ministry says, according to dpa. In a press release the ministry said that Lamia was "not registered in the Compulsory Employers' Register (ROE)" and therefore appeared to have been in violation of the law, despite having a valid business licence. Lamia Corporation SRL had been headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, since January 2016, and was registered as a charter airline service, Bolivia's civil aviation authority said.
