英国デロイトのシニア・マネジャー、人身売買で有罪（Manchester Evening Newsより）

High flying accountant's double life as sex trafficker

英国デロイトのマンチェスターの事務所にシニア・マネジャーとして勤めていたKunal Chaudharyという32歳の男が、人身売買の罪で有罪になったという記事。被害者たちのほとんどはハンガリーからだまされて英国に連れてこられ、パスポートを取り上げられ、犯罪組織の監視下で強制的に働かされていたそうです。有罪となったこの男は、デロイトに勤務しつつ、犯罪組織に加わっていました。

A top accountant led a double-life trafficking European sex workers into the UK.

Kunal Chaudhary was a privately-educated, seemingly respectable senior manager at leading firm Deloitte in Manchester.

But the 32-year-old, who lived in Didsbury, was secretly part of a gang who tricked women into coming to Britain where they were forced to have sex with up to 20 men a day.

Almost all the victims were trafficked from Hungary. Many applied online for what they believed were administrative, cleaning and babysitting jobs.

After their arrival in England, however, they were forced or coerced into prostitution at brothels around London.

Kunal Chaudhary, who lived on Fog Lane in Didsbury and worked at Deloitte’s Spinningfields offices in Manchester city centre, was part of a criminal ring based in London that controlled at least 120 women with threats of violence and intimidation. The gang would also take hold of their passports to exert further control over them.

デロイトのコメント。有罪判決を受けて、ただちにこの男を解雇したそうです。

A spokesman for Deloitte said: “Kunal Chaudhary is a former employee of the firm. The police have made it clear that these terrible offences were not in any way connected with his employment at Deloitte. As soon as the charges were confirmed he was suspended without pay and following his conviction he was dismissed without notice.”

会計士の不祥事でも、日本の先を行っているようです。