STA, 8 June 2021 - Police have filed a criminal complaint against three Slovenian citizens who are suspected of having deprived 432 workers, mostly foreign construction workers, of at least EUR 2.1 million in 2011-2019.
Celje crime police completed a lengthy investigation into systemic violations of fundamental worker rights at the end of May, the Celje Police Department said on Tuesday.
They have found that the employers hired workers from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia only to re-employ them after some time at ever new "shell" companies.
The suspected "shell" directors thus ran a total of 22 companies in 2011-2019, while deliberately not paying the workers their wages, social security contributions, such as health and pension insurance, or withholding tax payment and severance pay.
