2024-06-23 07:41:44
Geneva: A felony court docket in Switzerland on Friday sentenced 4 members of Britain’s richest Hinduja household to 4 to 4 and a half years in jail for exploiting home helpers. The court docket additionally dismissed the intense expenses of human trafficking. Indian-origin industrialist Prakash Hinduja and his spouse, son and daughter-in-law had been accused of trafficking their servants, most of whom had been uneducated Indians who labored of their luxurious villa in Geneva. The 4 accused weren’t current within the Geneva court docket, though the household’s enterprise supervisor and fifth accused Najeeb Jiyaji was current within the court docket. He was sentenced to 18 months, which has been suspended. The court docket mentioned that each one 4 are responsible of exploiting the staff and offering unauthorized employment. The court docket dismissed the fees of trafficking on the bottom that the staff had been working voluntarily.
They used to confiscate passports
4 members of the Hinduja household had been accused of confiscating staff’ passports, paying them in rupees as a substitute of Swiss francs, stopping them from leaving the villa and forcing them to work excruciatingly lengthy hours for little or no cash in Switzerland.
Spent an excessive amount of on the canine
Britain’s richest household was accused by the general public prosecutor of spending extra on their canine than on the helpers working in the home. The home servants had been made to work for 18 hours and had been paid solely 6.19 francs in return. On the identical time, the household spent 8554 francs yearly on their pet canine.