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Agents of the Police Headquarters of Murcia belonging to the Provincial Brigade Aliens and Borders, with the collaboration of the Provincial Working Murcia, have arrested three Spanish citizens as responsible for crimes against the rights of workers.

These arrests are the result of research work of that Brigade, aimed at protecting the rights of workers and foreign citizens.

Thus, recently it was found that a company in the agricultural sector in the Region of Murcia was employing foreigners, most of them illegal residents in our country, moving them to farms in our region or neighboring provinces to work in them, without any contract or employment protection, with low wages or well below the agreements governing such activities

Once the necessary steps, the last day October 19, with the collaboration of the Prevention and Response Unit of the Provincial Public Security Brigade of Murcia, conducted an inspection of that property, located in the municipality Alhama de Murcia, where 45 people were identified, of which 40 had no work and residence permit, being therefore in a position to stay illegally in Spain.

Of these, 32 are citizens of Paraguay, 1 in Bolivia, Burkina Faso 1, 2, Guinea Conakry, 1 Nicaragüa, 1 Guatemala, 1, 1, El Salvador and Ivory Coast.

All were taken into custody and arrested for violating the immigration law and in order to initiate the relevant removal proceedings.

The mission revealed that people who worked on the farm investigated had no employment contracts and any type of social protection, which used the occasion to pay them with much smaller quantities than those specified in the covenants of the sector.

The remuneration received by workers of the company were in this precarious situation, has been estimated at an average of 20 euros for a workday of eight hours.

For all this, last October 21, proceeded to arrest the manager of that company and two employees of the same, responsible for the recruitment of workers between groups of immigrants in an irregular situation.

All of them are accused of crimes against the rights of workers.

Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía de Murcia