The Faro Court sentenced two women to prison terms for the crimes of help illegal immigration Y illegal labor recruitmentThe Immigration and Border Service (SEF) reported this Saturday.
According to a statement from the SEF, this Thursday the sentence was read against two Portuguese women, aged 57 and 39, sentenced to prison sentences of three years and nine months and two years and two monthsrespectively, for committing the crimes of aiding illegal immigration and recruiting illegal labor.
The crimes investigated by the SEF refer to July 2016, when the two women recruited in the area of Martim Moniz, in Lisbonseveral citizens of Hindu origin (India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) to work for the agricultural company they represented, in Famalicãor, “promising greater assistance in their legalization, since all of them were in an irregular situation in national territory.”
According to the service that controls the Portuguese borders, in September of the same year, one of the defendants transported citizens to the Algarvewhere did they go containerized in a farm.
The court has now found that the citizens were exploited at work, “working between eight and 12 hours a day and seven days a weeknot being compensated monetarily for the effect, nor having paid the agreed amount or the diet”.
The SEF statement also indicates that it has been proven that the defendants “took advantage of the fragility in which these foreign citizens found themselves“.
“The group of judges understood that the defendants knew that by hiring, transporting, housing and benefiting from the work of these foreign citizens, favored and facilitated the illegal stay of foreigners national territory”, concludes the SEF.
Source: Observadora
