Exploitation of foreign labour case laid at Brixton Police Station

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

- SIFISO MAHLANGU [e-mail]

A HUMAN trafficking complaint filed at the Brixton Police Station on November 26 has triggered a widening investigation that now stretches into Gauteng's industrial and corporate sectors. The Star can confirm that Nishant Jain, a vice president at the investment firm Velocity Capital Management, is under formal investigation following allegations involving the exploitation of foreign labour.

Police stress that no charges have been laid and that the inquiry remains in its early stages, but investigators describe the complaint as significant enough to warrant heightened multi-unit operations.

Sources in the police reveal that the initial complaint described a pattern of coercive control involving several foreign nationals allegedly working under conditions that restricted their movement.