Beja: Romanian agricultural workers put lawsuits against employers.
Romanian agricultural workers move lawsuits to employers, who are arrested for trafficking, to collect unpaid amounts. Some have dubbed the case as “The revolt of the innocent”.
Seven Romanian citizens, agricultural workers who dedicated themselves to pick olives, moved lawsuits in Beja Labor Court (na photos) against their bosses, Romanian also lying trapped, among other crimes, by association and criminal trafficking.
At issue is the payment of salaries, part of Christmas and holiday allowances and compensations, They complain that after the arrest of his countrymen and that left them without work and without financial resources.
The seven cases, not the total value of 83.617,08 euros, five of them, overall value not exceeding 45 thousand euros, already reached the hearing stage of the parties, following now for trial. The remaining three were received in early December.
The defendants in the proceedings are Florin Adamescu, Constantin and Rafira Rusi and Green Priority company, Lda, that "controlled placement of workers" in many farms in the municipalities of Aljustrel, Beja, Cuba and Ferreira do Alentejo.
These processes are considered "unpublished", They were dubbed as "the revolt of the innocents", a controlled sector by Romanian citizens who bring their compatriots for the District of Beja and then end up being exploited, them being retained documents, They receive derisory sums and live in deplorable conditions.
The three individuals are part of a group of seven people, held in December 2018, under the operation "Masline" (Olive in Romanian), carried out by the Foreign Border Service (SEF), having been accused by prosecutors (MP) of Évora DIAP, of one hundred and nineteen crimes.
Two days after the arrest was frozen a bank account in the amount of 135.000 euros, belonging to Florin, considered the mastermind of Network, Total tendo been arrested near 7,5 million to the network of trafficking in persons.
Crimes
The network is accused of 58 trafficking offenses people, 1 criminal association crime, 58 aid of crimes against illegal immigration, 1 aid association crime illegal immigration, beyond 1 introduction of fraudulent crime in qualified consumer.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
