A raid of Chinese restaurants across Germany has uncovered a gang of human traffickers who brought more than 1,000 Chinese "specialty cooks" into the country…and to have exploited them in abusive working conditions...in the states of Lower Saxony, Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and North-Rhine Westphalia...[S]pokesman for the Hanover State Office of Criminal Investigation, Frank Federau [said].. “[U]pon arrival in Germany [immigrants] were forced to surrender their passports, essentially putting them in "debt servitude,"...The immigrants were made to work as chefs for up to 80 or 90 hours a week, at an hourly wage of 3 euros ($4.23).