UK's richest family get jail terms for exploiting staff at Swiss villa
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).
I was thinking it would be something like that and was shocked when it wasn’t mentioned in the article. But it doesn’t matter. Switzerland was never going to get them. They didn’t show up to their court cases and were claiming that they weren’t a flight risk. If Switzerland asked for their extradition from Monaco I bet you a year of my salary that they would have conveniently left just before the extradition request goes through. What a coincidence.
Too bad it's only one instance. They can never stop the majority of these assholes, just pick away at the occasional examples in a futile effort to scare the rest of them and to behaving.