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Trafficking ring charged
Gang members thought to be behind a £10m money laundering and human trafficking ring in Kettering, who kept more than 70 people as "modern day slaves" have been charged.
A year after raids in which 76 people were freed from 12 properties in Kettering, police have revealed 13 people are facing charges.
The dawn raids took place on November 18 last year and it was one of the UK's biggest crackdowns on human trafficking. At Northampton Crown Court yesterday, Sebastian Grochowski appeared accused of conspiracy to conceal criminal property.
The 31-year-old Polish national, of Blythe Road, Hillfields, Coventry, spoke only to confirm his name, through an interpreter.
Other defendants who have been charged include a 50-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman from Kettering, four Indian men aged 51, 29, 26 and 23 from Kettering, a 49-year-old man from Coventry, two men aged 49 and 42 from Wolverhampton, two Polish men aged 32 and 30, a Polish woman, 25, and a Portuguese man, 27, from Spalding.
They are charged with offences including conspiracy in respect to people trafficking for exploitation and 10m of money laundering in a bid to conceal the movements of people from Slovakia, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Those charged are all due to appear at Wellingborough Magistrates' Court on December 15 and 22.
A year ago police officers raided 12 properties in Kettering to find 76 migrant workers living in squalid conditions and being forced to work up to 16-hour days picking leeks in freezing conditions. Click here to read more.
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