Scanian horse farm reported for human exploitation

When the police and the Swedish Work Environment Agency raided the horse farm, they found three teenage boys who lacked work permits and were working under difficult conditions. Now the horse farm is reported for human exploitation, reports Ystads Allehanda.

The crime of human exploitation is relatively new and involves, for example, an employer exploiting a person in forced labor or forcing someone to work under unreasonable conditions or begging. The penalty for the crime is imprisonment for a maximum of four years.

It was last week that the police and the Work Environment Agency revealed the abuses during an inspection at the farm, which is located in the south-east of Skåne. The police told the newspaper that the three boys, who are between 15 and 18 years old and come from an East African country, must have lacked a work permit.

The employer has therefore also been reported for a breach of the Aliens Act.