World Billionaire Hinduja family gets over 4-year jail term for exploiting domestic workers

[TheNewb77]

Source : https://indianexpress.com/article/world/swiss-court-sentences-members-hinduja-family-exploiting-servants-9407367/

Four members of the affluent Hinduja family were sentenced by a Swiss criminal court on Friday to prison terms ranging from four to 4.5 years for exploiting vulnerable domestic workers. However, the court dismissed the more severe human trafficking charges.

Indian-born tycoon Prakash Hinduja, his wife, son, and daughter-in-law were accused of trafficking their domestic staff, predominantly illiterate Indians, who worked at their luxurious lakeside villa in Geneva. The family members were not present in court; however, Najib Ziazi, their business manager, attended and received an 18-month suspended sentence.

The defendants' lawyers announced plans to appeal the verdict. The court found the four guilty of worker exploitation and unauthorized employment but dismissed the trafficking charges, citing that the staff were aware of the terms of their employment.

 

[Egyptian]

Wow

 

[Bilal9]

Four members of the affluent Hinduja family were sentenced by a Swiss criminal court on Friday to prison terms ranging from four to 4.5 years for exploiting vulnerable domestic workers. However, the court dismissed the more severe human trafficking charges.

Indian-born tycoon Prakash Hinduja, his wife, son, and daughter-in-law were accused of trafficking their domestic staff, predominantly illiterate Indians, who worked at their luxurious lakeside villa in Geneva. The family members were not present in court; however, Najib Ziazi, their business manager, attended and received an 18-month suspended sentence.

The defendants' lawyers announced plans to appeal the verdict. The court found the four guilty of worker exploitation and unauthorized employment but dismissed the trafficking charges, citing that the staff were aware of the terms of their employment.

@TheNewb77 bhai - this is what happens when you live in Geneva, Switzerland as a Billionaire yet are too cheap to pay proper wages for Western-born butlers and help. This case has been dragging on for a while now in the Swiss courts.

Khasalat (shitty habits) die hard.

Check this out as well - these people are too "Indian" to wash their own dishes - even when you have computerized $5000 Bosch dishwashers available. Cheap exploiter desi upper middle class people.

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[Krishna with Flute]

Nothing will happen. Fake case.

 

[Bilal9]

Nothing will happen. Fake case.

Nothing will happen indeed - but not because the case is fake. They have enough money and can hire the best lawyers available. They already appealed last year and took the case to a higher court.

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Hindujas 'appalled' by Swiss court’s jail term order; File appeal​

PTI |
Updated on: Jun 24, 2024 07:48 am IST

They filed an appeal in a higher court challenging the verdict finding them guilty of exploiting vulnerable domestic workers from India at their Geneva villa.​

Britain’s wealthiest family, the Hindujas, have said they were “appalled” by a Swiss court’s ruling of jail terms for some members and have filed an appeal in a higher court challenging the verdict finding them guilty of exploiting vulnerable domestic workers from India at their villa in Geneva.

Swiss billionaire family members Namrata Hinduja (L) and Ajay Hinduja (2ndR) arrive at the Geneva's courthouse with their lawyers Yael Hayat (C) and Robert Assael (R). (AFP)

In a statement issued on behalf of the family on Friday, lawyers from Switzerland stressed their clients – Prakash and Kamal Hinduja, both in their 70s and their son Ajay and his wife Namrata – had been acquitted of all human trafficking charges.

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They also dismissed media reports that any members of the family faced detention after court reports from Geneva said the four were sentenced to between four and four-and-a-half years in prison.

“Our clients have been acquitted of all human trafficking charges. We are appalled and disappointed by the rest of the decision made in this court of first instance, and we have, of course, filed an appeal to the higher court, thereby making this part of the judgement not effective,” reads the statement signed by lawyers Yael Hayat and Robert Assael and Roman Jordan.