Gangs Are Recruiting Emigrants and Treating Them Like Slaves Emigrate.co.uk News: "Reports show that gangs are now recruiting emigrants and treating them just like slaves. They are forcing these people to live in dirty, cramped conditions, while making them pick leeks that would, in time, be sold to Tesco and Waitrose.
The emigrants from eastern Europe were always promised good wages, accommodations and nice working conditions. However, these emigrants would later find out that they would be beaten and/or threatened often. They would be kept in inhuman conditions and left very hungry.
So far, Gurdip Singh Somal, his wife Manjinder Kaur Somal, Jujhar Singh, Santokh Singh Nizzar, Varinder Singh, Fateh Singh Bal and Ania Jemiola have all denied conspiracy chargers to exploit emigrant workers. They deny two charges between December 2004 and November of 2008. All of the defendants have, so far, denied conspiracy to exploit by arranging travel within the UK, with the exception of Jemiola.
The Prosecutor said to the court that Gurdip Sonal ran the multi-million pound business. He provided agricultural labor to farmers by recruiting workers to harvest leeks in Lincolnshire, Nottingham and Cambridgeshire. He went on to say that this case against them is that they have cruelly mistreated emigrant workers, that they have exploited them. The workers came here on the promise of good wages, accommodations and conditions. However,he continued, in reality they were thrown out into leek fields when they arrived. They were intimidated and threatened all the time. In short, they were not treated like human beings, he added, they were treated like work animals."
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