Fourteen coordinated legal actions were filed on Thursday across four European jurisdictions against JBS, its banks, asset managers, accountants and lawyers over alleged criminal deforestation in the meat supply chain, according to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR).

Twelve complaints went to financial regulators in the United Kingdom (UK), Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands; the other two are criminal cases against parent company JBS N.V. in the Netherlands and JBS Global (UK) Limited in the UK. The coalition links JBS to over 6.5 million hectares of deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon between 1988 and July 2025, including direct and indirect suppliers, according to The Grocer. JBS said it had not seen the full complaints and that it has monitored cattle suppliers in the Amazon with satellite imagery and georeferencing since 2010, blocking farms tied to illegal deforestation.