Border Agency
North London food manufacturer Delphi Food Products could face fines of £120,000, after a raid by the UK Border Agency in which 12 people were arrested for immigration offences.
Eight Indian men, aged between 21 and 30, three Indian women, aged between 23 and 26, and a Sri Lankan man, aged 52, were all arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally, having over-stayed their visas.
Unless Delphi Foods provided the UK Border Agency with evidence that the correct right-to-work checks had been carried out it will face fines of £10,000 per illegal worker.
The UK Border Agency’s assistant director Steve Fisher, said: “This operation was extremely successful and I hope action like this sends out the message that we will not tolerate illegal working.”
When FoodManufacture.co.uk contacted Delphi Foods for comment on the Border Agency raid, a spokeswoman said: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”