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For more than ten years in charge of the agricultural sector defrauded numerous employees, justifying the work on behalf of these families
He was using the situation of the victims need to make them work in degrading conditions
The Civil Guard in the region of Murcia has developed the operation 'LIMONCCELO' led to the elucidation of a crime of threats, has finally uncovered a sequence of crimes committed against workers for over ten years, an employee of the agricultural sector, which has led to his arrest on suspicion of continuing crimes of fraud against the right of workers, extortion and threats.
Research last March began when the Civil Guard became aware of some alleged threats against the manager of a company Torreagüera horticultural products.
This person reported that one of the leaders of the crews had threatened him when he was warned by some irregularities in the company.
The Civil Guard identified the author of these threats, a man, an Algerian national, an employee of the company, on which the investigation was initiated.
More than ten years extorting foreign workers
The investigation uncovered practiced that after these threats, other illegal actions related to the person under investigation to the commission of the crimes of fraud and extortion to workers engaged in the collection of the goods in farms existed.
Foreign and precarious economic situations victims offered some reluctance to denounce what was happening there, although the Civil Guard has now confirmed that the arrested used his position as manager of crews to handle the slips of each worker, so so that pointed them unless they collected boxes of every day, then assign that job to their relatives, who were paid without even going to work.
The Civil Guard has been found that, in some cases, victims were paid only a third of the salary due to them, as he billed monthly, about 9,000 euros dealing in payroll family name.
The evidence obtained were supposed to know that the now detained had more than ten years doing these abusive practices among workers who were going through the company, because of its precarious financial situation were forced into working in these conditions, under threat of losing their jobs .
Furthermore attributed such demeaning actions he used to amedrantar their victims, such as spray them with water in winter, then wet them work.
Operation 'LIMONCCELO' has culminated in the arrest of a male person of Algerian nationality and 40 years who is credited with authorship of the crimes alleged crimes of fraud continued against the right of workers, extortion and threats .
The arrest and the proceedings have been brought before the Court of Instruction No. 3 of Murcia.
Source: Ministerio del Interior
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