Five-year bans for couple who employed illegal workers
A couple who employed three illegal workers at a Chinese takeaway in the Scottish Highlands have been banned as company directors.
Yu Jian Chen, 39, and his wife Yunqin He, 38, recruited the workers, who were from China and Malaysia, at The Jade Garden in the village of Bonar Bridge.
Immigration Enforcement officials discovered the illegal workers during a raid of the takeaway last year.
Dave Magrath, Director of Investigation and Enforcement Services at the Insolvency Service, said:
Chen and He were directors of The Jade Garden, trading under the company name JG Sutherland Limited, when Immigration Enforcement officials visited the premises in January 2023, finding two Chinese men and a Malaysian woman with no right to work there.
Immigration Enforcement fined The Jade Garden £45,000 for the immigration breach, which remains unpaid.
Brian Gillespie, the Home Office’s Immigration Compliance Enforcement lead for Scotland, said:
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade accepted disqualification undertakings from Chen and He, and their five-year bans began on Thursday 19 September.
The disqualifications prevent the pair from becoming involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of the court.
He resigned as a director of the company five days after the Immigration Enforcement raid.
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