People-trafficking family made fortune by keeping slaves' wages and benefits

A Slovakian family of people traffickers who enslaved their victims in England made hundreds of thousands of pounds by keeping their wages and benefits.

People-trafficking family made fortune by keeping slaves' wages and benefits

A Slovakian family of people traffickers who enslaved their victims in England made hundreds of thousands of pounds by keeping their wages and benefits.

The Newcastle-based Rafael family, of Roma origin, spent their ill-gotten gains on gold and jewellery, casino trips, Mediterranean holidays and £10,000 cash on an Audi Q7 after luring vulnerable people from central Europe and forcing them to work in the UK.

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