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FIVE halal butchers in Thornton Heath face heavy fines after immigration officials discovered they have been employing more than a dozen illegal workers.
The UK Border Agency, accompanied by police officers, raided J & J, Fresh 4 You, Islamabad, Zenith and S S Halal Butchers, in the High Street.
After checking the immigration status of staff at the five businesses, 15 men – 10 Pakistanis, two Afghans, two Indians and one from Bangladesh – were arrested.
Officers detained a 29-year-old Indian and a 21-year-old Afghan after searching Islamabad during the operation last Thursday.
Four workers from Pakistan and one Bangledeshi were arrested at J & J Halal Butchers and the flats above the shop.
At S S, three Pakistanis were arrested for immigration offences, as well as one Indian man who had been working in Fresh 4 You.
Three more Pakistanis and a 27-year-old from Afghanistan were also taken away from Zenith Halal Butchers by border officials.
Twelve of the 15 men who were arrested during the operation – which involved officers from the Met’s Territorial Support Group – have been detained pending removal from the country.
The remaining three were granted immigration bail and will now have to report to the UK Border Agency while their travel documents are prepared.
All five businesses face fines of up to £10,000 per illegal worker, unless they can prove the correct pre-employment checks were carried out. Four have already been fined for employing illegal workers following a similar raid last August.
Following that operation Zenith and S S Halal Butchers were both fined £10,000, and Fresh 4 You and Islamabad £5,000 each.
The Advertiser understands that at least two of the workers arrested in last Thursday’s operation were arrested in last year’s raids.
Frances Beasley, who heads the UK Border Agency’s Local Immigration Team in Croydon, said: “If they didn’t learn their lesson the first time, they will now. These fines do send a strong message. Businesses like these cannot afford to pay £10,000 every time we find an illegal worker.
“The financial climate has brought these kind of immigration offences into sharper focus.”