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BBC News
28-05-2025
- Business
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Bournemouth's Chicken N Beer loses licence after illegal workers found
A chicken bar where two illegal workers were found after a raid by immigration officials has been stripped of its licence to sell man and woman ran out of the back of Chicken N Beer in Stanfield Road, Bournemouth, when officials spotted them in Immigration Enforcement said the man entered the UK illegally on a small boat in 2022 and that neither of them had ever been allowed to work in the Council's licensing sub-committee removed the licence after a hearing on 20 May following an application by Dorset Police. The council said it was appropriate to take the licence away because Chicken N Beer showed there was "no alternative outcome that will mitigate the concerns raised by Dorset Police and Home Office Immigration Enforcement".The man found at Chicken N Beer said he had worked at the bar for "nearly a month" and had provided no official documentation to prove he had a right to woman entered the UK on a student visa in 2023 but her student leave expired in May 2024. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
20-05-2025
- BBC News
Bournemouth bar where illegal workers found could lose licence
A chicken bar where two illegal workers were found after a raid by immigration officials should be stripped of its licence to sell alcohol, police man and woman ran out of the back of Chicken N Beer in Stanfield Road, Bournemouth, when they were spotted by the officials in Immigration Enforcement said the man entered the UK illegally on a small boat in 2022 and that neither of them had ever been allowed to work in the country. The bar's premises licence holder, Roy Francis, said he had stepped down from being a director of the company that runs it before the man and woman were found working there. BCP Council's licensing sub-committee was told the man's claim for protection was withdrawn in February 2024 after he told immigrations officials he had worked as a cleaner at Chicken N Beer for "nearly a month" and said he provided no official documentation to prove his right to woman entered the UK on a student visa in 2023 but her student leave expired in May claimed protection, which is still under consideration, last pair said they were paid below the minimum wage and in cash, with the man telling officials he received £6 an hour for working three hours a Francis said the management of the venue's licence is set to be transferred to another BCP Council said that while it has received an application for the transfer, it has not received any payment for licensing sub-committee will make a decision on the licence, which could result in it being revoked, changed or left as it is, within the next five working days. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Business
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Barton Mills car wash owner fined £180k for illegal workers
A hand car wash owner has been fined £180,000 and banned as a company director for seven years after employing four illegal Dragoti, 28, of Queensway, Mildenhall, Suffolk, hired workers from Romania at the Fiveways Car Wash on the Fiveways Roundabout near the A11 at Barton workers were discovered when immigration enforcement officials visited the car wash last year, according to the Insolvency Service. Dave Magrath, director of investigation and enforcement services at the Insolvency Service, said company directors had "clear statutory obligations to recruit people" with the right to work in the UK. Officials found the Romanian men, aged between 18 and 49, with no right to work in the UK when the car wash was visited last Insolvency Service said Dragoti was the sole director of Vito's Car Care Limited, the company in charge of the car wash, and the fine remained unpaid. He is prevented from becoming involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of a court."Vittorio Dragoti's disqualification as a company director is a result of ongoing close collaboration between the Insolvency Service and our partners at the Home Office to clamp down on rogue directors," Mr Magrath Daldry, the Home Office's East of England immigration compliance and enforcement lead, said the case was a "great example of the serious consequences that are in store for business owners who fail to carry out checks on individuals they hire to ensure they have the right to work in the UK"."Dragoti flouted our employment and immigration rules by employing multiple people with no right to work in the UK, resulting in long-term enforcement action against himself and his business," she added. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
