World News @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 5mo ago

UK's richest family get jail terms for exploiting staff at Swiss villa

www.rawstory.com UK's richest family get jail terms for exploiting staff at Swiss villa

A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain's richest family on Friday, branding them "selfish" for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.The Hindujas were acquitted of human trafficking, but convicted on other charges in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune ...

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YES

Finally some sort of actual consequence for the malicious bullshit of the ultra wealthy. We take those Ws
- They’re never going to spend a second in jail. The swiss don’t have them in custody now and they probably never will. The rich only ever get punished if they harm other richer people.
  
  They got suspended sentences. The author of the article didn't do their research (probably an LLM anyway).
Imagine being worth almost $50 billion and paying your staff basically slave wages.
- That's why they're worth that much. You can't hoard that much wealth and have empathy. They're mutually exclusive.
  
  They sound like animals. Glad to see justice being done here.
- How's do you think they got to be worth that much in the first place
- Don't have to imagine it. That's most companies too.
- Sounds like the Saudi royal family. Except they're not that poor.
Good start. They are actually not the only ones in that area where rumors of similar treatment of employees are making the rounds.
- I wonder if working conditions have improved recently after this. LOL.
  
  Could be, if the neighbours did smart up.
Rich family exploits their workers.. suprise, suprise. I wonder just how many others they've exploited.

Nasty scummy people who should be in prison.

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