Two brothers who trafficked 18 people from Poland to the UK to work at a Sports Direct warehouse and conned and threatened them, have been sentenced to six years in prison for modern slavery. The BBC report that Erwin and Krystian Markowski, recruited the vulnerable men in Poland to work at the Sports Direct warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. The pair controlled their victims’ bank accounts and kept most of their wages, totalling £35,000, between 2015 and 2016.  They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to arrange travel with a view to exploitation and fraud by false representation and were sentenced to six years in prison for modern slavery. During the sentencing, the Judge, said it was a “planned and systematic” scheme of “human trafficking”.

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