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2011年1月11日

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RTRS member Nidera accused of slave-like treatment of labourers and tax evasion [Argentina]

A news report has appeared in Argentina's Pagina12 about Nidera, a Dutch-based agribusiness company...The...report...says that Nidera is being investigated for tax evasion by the Argentine government. But that's the least of the crimes of which Nidera stands accused, which include slave-like treatment of workers and human rights abuses...Nidera is a member of the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)..."Nidera...had been holding prisoner 130 workers from the North of Argentina, adults and teenagers who didn't know where they were, were unable to leave, had no electricity or water and whose cash-in-hand wages were heavily discounted for the supplies sold by the company at extortionate prices..."...Upon verifying the workers' conditions, the District Attorney started procedures to bring charges on slavery and embezzlement of public funds...Doctor Julio Carballo, in charge of the San Pedro Sanitation Office told a local radio that the living conditions for the workers were those of a concentration camp...