Slave Trade in England: Asylum Abuse

[Fitz]

This is a problem the world over apparently. It is being called slave trade.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4226617.stm

EXCERPT:

Rise of a modern-day slave trader

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39972000/jpg/_39972357_solomka203.jpg Victor Solomka arrived in Britain on the back of a lorry

**Just four years after arriving in the UK as an asylum seeker, Victor Solomka became Britain’s biggest gangmaster. **

A police officer described Solomka, 44, as a modern-day slave trader who made a personal fortune on the back of the misery of those he employed. He exploited a market where factories are desperate for workers and illegal immigrants desperate for wages. Solomka accumulated a multi-million fortune while, it was reported, his workers made as little as £2 an hour.

 

[Lance]

Unless he can be tied to George Bush, my guess is that we will hear nothing from Matt25 and Norwich about this. He is proof that greed is not just an American trate. If he is guilty they should take everything he has and give it to the poor.

 

[Linda_H]

That would be a begining to justice in this case, but just a begining. A crime like this calls for a very harsh prison sentence, at least 30 years, and at hard labor! It’s a shame they don’t make them break rocks anymore.

Linda H.

 

[Norwich]

Lance:

Unless he can be tied to George Bush, my guess is that we will hear nothing from Matt25 and Norwich about this. He is proof that greed is not just an American trate. If he is guilty they should take everything he has and give it to the poor.

Lance, your being very unkind.

As far as this goes I think he should be locked away and the key lost somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately I am very close to this case in that he lived in Kings Lynn. That may not mean much to anyone else but I have no doubt Matt25 will know how close that is to me. It is also the case that many of those he “Employed” worked within the Parish’s I serve and I was aware that something was going on, sadly trying to get definative information in this environment is next to impossible.

It’s unfortunate but this type of behaviour is not the exclusive province of Europe. When I worked in the Middle East I was a manager for a Saudi company with two Saudi brothers as my employers. A great deal of the labour was Indian with some Philipino engineers. Talking to the Indians over a period of time it became apparent that even after being employed to work in Saudi they still had to send money to the agents in India amounting to about two years salary before they began to earn for themselves and their families. Basically they were being ripped of by their own people. Now for the interesting bit, when I told Aziz (the senior brother) he hit the roof. He and I both flew to Bombay (as it then was) he fired all the agents and made some very very threatening noises of what would happen to the agents if he got one whiff of any problems with his employees families, we flew back to Saudi and he interveiwed each and every employee (all 140 of them) established how much they had had to pay to the agents and reimbursed every one of them fully. He had no need to, he had no obligation to, there was no law that said he had to, not bad for a Moslem, or for a Christian come to that. Maybe thats one of the reasons I don’t look on ordinary Moslems in the same way that others do. I know what some of them are capable of.

 

[gilliam]

Norwich,

Great story, thanks for sharing it.