| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : NOVEMBER 27, 2000 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
A Year of Raids LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1999 Raids on properties owned by racketeer Joginder Kaile reveal a finely organized system for exploiting illegal immigrants from India and Pakistan. MILAN, MAR. 14, 2000 25 Chinese immigrants are discovered in a rat-infested sweatshop in Milan. GALLARATE, ITALY, MAR. 15, 2000 After an angry boss burns a worker alive, investigators near Milan uncover what is thought to be an underground agency marketing immigrants for construction work. ITALY, APR. 7, 2000 Sweatshops in 28 Italian towns are busted after 16 months of undercover investigations. ''Operation Sunrise'' exposes a network of some 200 gangsters smuggling Chinese workers into textile, apparel, shoe, and leather factories. PARIS, MAY 10-11, 2000 Police raid a suburban warehouse where 17 workers toil six to seven days a week, 15 hours a day, with pay docked heavily for food and lodging. MILAN, JUNE 28, 2000 Investigators sequester ledgers from an ''employment office'' in Milan's Chinatown, complete with lists of available illegal immigrants and job openings. Ten sweatshops were identified in the ledgers. MILAN, JUNE 28, 2000 Police raid a textile sweatshop in a 48-sq.-yd. windowless garage, discovering eight people using outdated sewing machines. Temperatures inside reached 98F. MAIANO MONTI, AUG. 1, 2000 Police discover that 11 Ukrainians had been ''recruited'' in their home country by an Italian ''employment'' agency, then forced on arrival to work 10-hour days, six days a week, earning $450 per month, living in a dormitory on the factory grounds. MILAN, AUG. 30, 2000 Four Chinese immigrants are arrested after police discover 26 illegal workers, including children, producing computer covers and house slippers. ROME, SEPT. 19, 2000 Twenty-eight Chinese immigrants are apprehended, and some 20 escape during the blitz of a depository on the periphery of the city. One 31-year-old man was freed from the 7-sq.-yd. room where he was locked in to sew precut garments. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP |
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