On Wednesday, the finance and immigration police carried out a targeted operation on a large construction site in the city center of Innsbruck. Several workers were identified as being in the country illegally. In addition, numerous violations were identified – including those under the Wage and Social Dumping Combating Act.
The workers at the large construction site in Innsbruck must have been quite surprised when officers from the finance and federal police and the Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum suddenly arrived on Wednesday to carry out a large-scale inspection. “The aim of this was to identify immigration and finance police offenses,” said the investigators.Police examined 113 workersThe police checked a total of 113 people who were working on the construction site. “Five workers were found to be staying there illegally. A total of five reports were filed under the Aliens Police Act and two reports under the Registration Act,” says the executive’s report.Foreign subcontractors in the crosshairsThe finance officials also had a lot to do. In total, 22 companies were checked and 99 workers were checked. “The financial police focused primarily on foreign subcontractors.”Five violations were identified under the Foreigners Employment Act. In addition, no fewer than 30 violations of the Wage and Social Dumping Act were recorded at five foreign subcontractors. In total, the financial police will request fines of around 40,000 euros, the investigators concluded.
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