Human trafficker ordered to repay £100k

A former hotel owner has been ordered to repay almost £100,000 which he made from trafficking workers recruited from Bangladesh.

Shamsul Arefin, 50, was jailed for three years in 2015 after being found guilty of human trafficking. He has now been ordered to repay the money he made through his exploitation of four men while he owned the Stewart Hotel near Appin in the Highlands.

The men were told to pay Arefin substantial sums of money in return for promised jobs in Scotland, and the victims sold family valuables, took loans and used their savings to raise the money.

But when they arrived in Scotland the men found their salaries were substantially lower to those they had been promised, leaving them unable to repay the debts they had accrued