A forced criminality case from 2023 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 1 source on file.
This page describes exploitation and abuse. Need to report something? How to report →
Vulnerable women and children from Eastern Europe were trafficked into the UK and exploited by organized crime groups to commit large-scale shoplifting. Victims were housed in overcrowded accommodation and used to steal high-value retail goods for criminal networks.
United Kingdom GB
Complaints by seven workers in Angus led to the investigation. In Angus and elsewhere, investigators found more than 15 breaches of regulation in such as areas as transportation, accommodation and minimum wage requirements against Polish workers who were employed picking daffodils. After this investigation, Timberland Recruitment Ltd had their license revoked by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), a UK agency which "regulates those who supply labour or use workers to provide services in agriculture, forestry, horticulture, shellfish gathering and food processing and packaging." (http://www.gla.gov.uk/index.asp?id=42) Among other things, the GLA found a letter to the workers stating that they may not leave before the end of the contract without paying a fine to the company, and including threats to their families at home should they not pay, that workers had had deductions from their wages for transportation, housing, and the use of the company's water-proof clothing in bad weather, that workers were regularly receiving below minimum wage, and that they lived in sub-standard, cramped conditions which exhibited fire and health hazards.
United Kingdom GB
Raid occurred freeing 59 women from trafficking in Scotland.
United Kingdom GB
6 traffickers involved...Ali Arslan, Edward Facuna, Roman Pacan, Mesut Aslan, Kosovan Martin, Valmin Gjetja. They were aged between 26-54 years old and were expected to have sold approximately 50 eastern european women.