Fourteen Chinese construction workers without a valid working visa were sentenced to a one-year jail term and fined Rs 50,000 each by Galle’s Magistrate Harshana Kekunawela on Friday. The workers who had arrived on one-month tourist visas were arrested after their tourist visas had lapsed and they were found to be working on a hotel [...]

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No valid work visa: Jail terms for 14 Chinese workers

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Fourteen Chinese construction workers without a valid working visa were sentenced to a one-year jail term and fined Rs 50,000 each by Galle’s Magistrate Harshana Kekunawela on Friday.

The workers who had arrived on one-month tourist visas were arrested after their tourist visas had lapsed and they were found to be working on a hotel project at Dadella in Galle.

The suspects were arrested on March 2 and remanded for two weeks before they were sentenced on Friday.

The court ordered that the Chinese be deported after the completion of their jail terms.

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