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He confirmed that the work was only one of eight locations sought, in addition to seven residences in which workers were recorded under cramped conditions.
These sweeps showed two arrests: the owner of the well -made industry, Zhu Chen, and his nephew Jiayi Chen. A third person associated with the company, Jian Jun Lu, was arrested on April 5. All three because of “human trafficking for workers or sexual bondage”.
In the case of hearings on April 7, the deputy district prosecutor Austin Waldo said that the workers from Wellmade Industries had confiscated their travel documents after arriving to the USA and making it more difficult for them after covering WBHF. Employees were Chinese citizens who had been hired as part of a temporary Visa program and had promised high salaries. Instead, they had to work 12-hour layers and they were not allowed to leave the factory or their place of residence.
Waldo said there were several calls to the authorities who reported slaves -like conditions, reported WBHF.
Both ZHU and Jiayi Chen received $ 200,000 bonds.
The conditions that Richter Neal Brunt defines the following include the following: The Chens do not have to have contact with the employees of the well -made industries and stay away from the facility. Your whereabouts are pursued electronically and can only leave your houses to visit medical or legal appointments, go to church or to buy it after essential.
In an explanation, Zhu Chen's lawyer Colette Resnik Steel said that her client had lived lawfully for over a decade and worked in the United States.
“He is a proud American citizen who has invested enormous time, energy and money to create a productive and successful manufacturing business in Georgia,” she said. “He always persecuted the law and rely on prominent lawyers to ensure that the business corresponds to the law.”
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Jiyi Chen's lawyer did not answer a request for comments.
Chinese citizens recently were the center of another Labor exploitation in Georgia. A group of Chinese workers in Savannah searched for help and claimed that over a month had passed before they were paid for their work in a local warehouse where they had loaded and unloaded trucks. At the beginning of this year they received hundreds of thousands of dollars of wages and damage.
“Unfortunately, the exploitation of workers of immigrants is a reality within this country and in Georgia in industries, visa classifications, workers from all over the world were affected,” said Anjali Nair, deputy director of Asian Americans, the judiciary atlanta. “If repeated practices of employees from certain countries arise, we should observe the need for reforms to prioritize, multilingual information on the murder of an individual in this country to enforce its rights.”
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At the press conference of April 4, cabinet confirmed that the officials asked the employees after their immigration status and asked whether they had been victims of human trafficking. He said that there are ways for victims and witnesses of crime that stay in the country, even if they are illegal here.
“Nobody who was found in this place was removed from the United States,” he said. “For the most part, we focused on foreigners who became victims.”
