{"id":29413,"date":"2015-06-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/06\/20150609_131404.shtml"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:00:00","slug":"15-arrested-in-illegal-worker-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/06\/09\/15-arrested-in-illegal-worker-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"15 arrested in illegal worker blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/parallel_trading.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Immigration officers and Police arrested 11 illegal workers and four employers in a crackdown on illegal employment yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two men and four women, aged 28 to 49 were arrested at four target locations including restaurants and a garage. Two of them are recognisance form-holders which prohibits them from taking up work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One woman was suspected of using and being in possession of a forged Hong Kong identity card.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four men aged 35 to 60 were suspected of employing the illegal workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two men and three women, aged 30 to 59 were arrested for breaching their conditions of stay by being involved in parallel goods trading at San Wan Road and Po Shek Wu Road in Sheung Shui.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized milk powder, food, mobile phones and electronic products.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A total of 2,331 Mainlanders and 14 Hong Kong residents have been arrested for parallel goods trading since September 2012. Of these, 216 Mainlanders have been prosecuted and 206 have been jailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/parallel_trading.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Immigration officers and Police arrested 11 illegal workers and four employers in a crackdown on illegal employment yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two men and four women, aged 28 to 49 were arrested at four target locations including restaurants and a garage. Two of them are recognisance form-holders which prohibits them from taking up work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One woman was suspected of using and being in possession of a forged Hong Kong identity card.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four men aged 35 to 60 were suspected of employing the illegal workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two men and three women, aged 30 to 59 were arrested for breaching their conditions of stay by being involved in parallel goods trading at San Wan Road and Po Shek Wu Road in Sheung Shui.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized milk powder, food, mobile phones and electronic products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 2,331 Mainlanders and 14 Hong Kong residents have been arrested for parallel goods trading since September 2012. Of these, 216 Mainlanders have been prosecuted and 206 have been jailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29414,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29413\/revisions\/29414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}