Crime family kept 26 ‘slaves’ in terraced house

East Ham

Five members of a Romanian crime family who made a fortune keeping up to 26 slave labourers in a single terraced house are facing jail. Their victims were promised £50 a day to work in the construction industry with free food and accommodation. But once they were crammed into the slums run by 62-year-old Vasile Dragoi – dubbed the ‘big boss’ – and his family, their wages were withheld and they were presented with bogus bills. Their identification documents were…

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