Three people in Wales face jail after being convicted of forcing a vulnerable Latvian immigrant to work off an ever-increasing “debt” that included a fictional sum to pay for the costs of Brexit.
Normunds Freibergs, 40, Jacobus Stankevicius, 59, and his wife Ruta Stankeviciene, 57, were convicted at Newport Crown Court under Britain’s Modern Slavery Act and will be sentenced in October.
The court heard Rolands Kazoks, 31, was living in Germany when he went onto a Latvian website, Draugiem, to look for jobs in Britain, according to a press release from the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA).
He made contact with Freibergs, who pretended to work for a recruitment company….