The NCA said the trial also heard how defendants Shamraiz Akhtar and Tasawar Hussain, both 50, of Nechells Park Road and Millward Street in Birmingham, were taxi drivers who would transport migrants, and sometimes cannabis and equipment, around the gang’s properties and be paid hundreds of pounds for each job.
NCA branch commander Kevin Broadhead said: “These men were responsible for the exploitation of a number of migrants who they moved around the UK and forced to work in cannabis farms.
The NCA said he had travelled to the UK to pay off money he had borrowed to pay for his wife’s medical treatment, but was then forced to work for the traffickers as he was in a debt bondage with those who had transported him to the UK.
Six men have been convicted as part of a criminal gang who forced trafficked migrants to work in cannabis farms across the country.
A seven-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard from one of the trafficking victims known as Witness Z, who was exploited by the gang after he arrived in the UK by boat in November 2020.
