A Swiss court has handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.
The Hindujas, who were not present in court, were acquitted of human trafficking but convicted of other charges on Friday in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune is estimated at £37bn.
Prakash Hinduja and his wife, Kamal, were each sentenced to four years and six months in prison, and their son Ajay and his wife, Namrata, received four-year terms.
I will never understand the giga-rich. They could afford to hire round-the-clock help at rates that both buy expertise and inspire loyalty. Your house staff know where the bodies are buried, maybe literally—there’s no world where it makes sense to pay them less than six figures. Remember, $100,000 is 0.01% of $1,000,000,000, or about 0.003% of their estimated net worth of $37B. They could hire an extra maid at $100,000/year and not even notice the expense.
But they can afford even more than that. Splurge a little. Hire a specialist in early childhood education to tutor your kids. Get a chef who graduated from a renowned culinary school. They could afford to spend millions on salary. Why skimp? What do they think they are saving up for?
If you think like that (and I think everyone should) then you will never be rich. Exploiting others is in their blood.
You know it’s bad when even a two thousand year old gospel considers “rich people don’t go to heaven” to be divine wisdom. It has always been thus.
There’s no way the CEO of my last company - making a cool 6mil one year that I saw an article about the shareholders paying him a bonus of another few mil - works 125 times as hard as my 48k (gross) ass.
Maybe they like to exercise power over others. Sociopaths like to hurt people.
I think you have a little of that, and a little of this showing that the giga-rich didn’t get that way because they are these perfect human multi-specialty geniuses like they all claim.
Sure, maybe they’re pretty bright in one or two areas. Many successful people are. But they also do real stupid, shortsighted shit like this all the time. They got as rich as they did not on merit, but on family wealth, luck, and exploiting the labor of others.
That’s what I don’t understand either. It can’t just be about money at that point right? Like they must intentionally be trying to bring back slavery or something.
It’s not about the money. It’s about power.
Get a chef who graduated from a renowned culinary school.
That’s what a friend of mine does - he is rarely home because the rich family that employs him want him on hand 24/7 and they pay accordingly. They get top notch food whenever they want it and are pretty safe from getting their food spat in. The Hindujas have probably ingested a lot of phlegm over the years. Should be good practice if they ever actually end up in prison.
Exactly. All those ‘extra milky’ cappucinos.
Scum people deserve scum service.*
- Note that I said service, not staff. If someone is willing to clean your shitty toilet, you need to pay them decently.
Dude if they have been served Indian food there could be literally anything hidden in there…
I adore Indian culture and their foods are so delicious but man sometimes it looks like poo
I object to the British label.
Prakash Hinduja is Indian born Swiss. His brother S.P Hinduja was Indian born British and the billionaire head on the Hinduja company until his death last year. The company itself is Indian, so the British connection died last year and was somebody not involved in the case. This was a Swiss trial of a swiss family.
Plus… Let’s face it. People with this level of money choose their nationality based on financial or business reasons. Wherever gives them the best tax break.
Finally, some good fucking news!
Silly people, you need to be incorporated to enslave people without consequences.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Swiss court has handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.
The Hindujas, who were not present in court, were acquitted of human trafficking but convicted of other charges on Friday in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune is estimated at £37bn.
The case stemmed from the family’s practice of bringing servants from their native India and included accusations of confiscating the staff’s passports once they had arrived in Switzerland.
The Hindujas reached a confidential out-of-court settlement with the three employees who had made the accusations against them, but the prosecution decided to pursue the case owing to the gravity of the charges.
In his closing address, the prosecutor accused the family of abusing the “asymmetrical situation” between powerful employer and vulnerable employee to save money.
The Hinduja family’s defence lawyers argued that the three plaintiffs received ample benefits, were not kept in isolation and were free to leave the villa.
The original article contains 428 words, the summary contains 164 words. Saved 62%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
You have Indian slaves? Here’s 4 years you’re likely not to serve much of.
You non-lethally shoot somebody in the leg and aren’t a rich fuck? Here’s a life sentence of which you are required to serve a bare minimum of 9 years of.
I’d argue the slavery is worse than shooting somebody in the leg, but he wasn’t rich so obviously he needs to be put away for a long time…
Comparing apples and oranges here: the case at hand was prosecuted by the Swiss; the one you linked was adjudicated in the UK.
Ah I see, apologies. It’s still a sham of justice imo, but you are entirely correct
Conviction means nothing if you can’t enforce it. I highly doubt any of them would ever actually see jail.
Mood
And this was probably taken before the verdict.
It was a pipedream, but I thought for a moment this was about the royal family.
