Border police raid Reading RMUs
Published: 04 January, 2011
Crackdown on illegal immigrants manning RMUs
Four people have been arrested following a UK Border Agency operation at the Oracle shopping centre in Reading.
Acting on intelligence, and with the full co-operation of management, officers visited the Oracle Centre on Sunday 19 December to carry out checks on the staff working on stalls there.
At the Heat in a Click RMU, two men and a woman were arrested for working in breach of their visa conditions. All were Israeli nationals in their 20s, and were detained pending their removal from the UK.
Another Israeli woman, aged 22, was arrested at the Magnolia unit for working in breach of her visa conditions. She was granted immigration bail, but will also have to leave the UK.
Both employers now face fines of up to £10,000 per illegal worker, unless they can prove that they carried out the correct right-to-work checks on their staff.
