WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – twelfth October, 2022) US authorities charged a former Kuwaiti diplomat to the UN and his spouse with abusing home employees from India and the Philippines. along with visa and contracting fraud, the Justice Department stated in a press launch.
“Barrak Abdulmohsen Alhunaif, a former diplomatic attache assigned to the United Nations Permanent Mission of the State of Kuwait, and his wife Khaledah Saad Aldhubaibi, were charged in Manhattan Federal court with forced labor… in connection with their hiring and subsequent abuse of three domestic workers from India and the Philippines,” the division stated on Tuesday.
The former diplomat and his spouse allegedly paid home employees as little as $700 monthly whereas forcing them to work in extra of 40 hours every week with no common days off.
The Justice Department additionally accused the couple of verbally and bodily abusing employees. In addition, the discharge alleges that Alhunaif and Aldhubaiba refused two of the employees well timed medical look after sicknesses attributable to or caught whereas they had been working.
In addition to compelled labor, the couple was charged with visa fraud and fraud in international labor contracting, amongst different crimes.
The compelled labor cost carries a most sentence of 20 years in jail whereas the others carry sentences starting from 5 to 10 years every. Aldhubaibi if confirmed responsible on all expenses may withstand 35 years in jail and Alhunaif as much as 80 years.
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