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| Sports Direct 'modern slavery' brothers jailed | Sports Direct 'modern slavery' brothers jailed |
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| Two brothers who conned and threatened Sport Direct agency workers have been jailed. | Two brothers who conned and threatened Sport Direct agency workers have been jailed. |
| Erwin and Krystian Markowski, both from Nottingham, recruited 18 vulnerable men in Poland and sent them to the retailer's warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. | |
| The pair controlled their victims' bank accounts and kept most of their wages, Nottingham Crown Court heard. | |
| They have both been sentenced to six years in prison for "modern slavery". | They have both been sentenced to six years in prison for "modern slavery". |
| Erwin, 39, of Cedar Road, and Krystian, 35, of Harcourt Road, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to arrange travel with a view to exploitation and fraud by false representation. | |
| They were given a two-and-a-half year sentence for fraud to run at the same time as the six years. | |
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| The prosecution accepted it wasn't "forced labour" but said the workers had "very little choice". | The prosecution accepted it wasn't "forced labour" but said the workers had "very little choice". |
| During the sentencing, Judge Stephen Coupland said: "It was a planned and systematic scheme to traffic others, for you to control them and benefit from their hard work, whilst they received very little and lived in poor conditions." |