Manitoba hotel owners charged with trafficking employees who were underpaid, threatened with deportation: RCMP

A couple in Portage la Prairie has been charged with human trafficking after a months-long investigation revealed that four employees from India were underpaid, forced to work 15-hour days, and threatened with deportation. The investigation began in February when the RCMP responded to a disturbance at the hotel they owned.

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A couple who own a hotel were caught doing bad things by making their workers from India work really long hours without enough money and saying they would send them away if they didn’t work hard.

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