The Civil Guard investigation into four businessmen from the province of Huesca for having seven immigrants picking fruit irregularly. The Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Huesca Command believes that it could have committed a crime against the rights of workers by hiring them to carry out agricultural work on a farm in the Los Monegros region without papers.
As part of the surveillance carried out by the Civil Guard to prevent activities that could violate the labor rights of migrants, an agricultural operation was detected which, according to the investigations of the agents, could hire irregular migrants.
Once the investigation was structured, on October 8, the members of the delinquency against persons team of the UOPJ, in coordination with the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate of Huesca, and support from civil guards specialists in forensics and citizen security patrols from the Huesca Civil Guard Company carried out inspections of the affected agricultural areas.
Specifically, they went to an agricultural farm dedicated to the pomegranate harvest, where they located thirty workers of different nationalities. which came from different companies.
During the identification process and due to the lack of personal documents, agents of the Criminalistics Laboratory of the UOPJ were able to verify the presence of seven foreigners who worked irregularly.
The victims are adult men of Moroccan, Senegalese and Pakistani nationality. They were all irregularly shaped and they did not have permission to work.
Due to the situation of irregularity and necessity in which they find themselves, the Civil Guard does not exclude that they could be hired. in vulnerable circumstances, without recognizing them the rights that should be conferred on them by legal provisions, collective agreements or their individual contract.
For all these reasons, the agents carried out an investigation into four businessmen as alleged perpetrators of a crime against workers’ rights, since they were responsible for the agricultural exploitation and recruitment of irregular people who worked in the fruit collection. without legal guarantees.
According to the Civil Guard, all those investigated were men, aged between 35 and 69 years old and the inhabitants of the Los Monegros region and the province of Lleida.
The procedure ordered by the UOPJ Crimes Against People Team of the command of the Civil Guard of HuesTHAT They were delivered to the investigating court no. 1 of Huesca, leaving the four people under investigation with the obligation to appear when required toOr the judge
