Overview
- Immigration Enforcement carried out three depot visits on July 8, July 9 and July 15 that led to ten arrests at Evri sites in Redditch, Croydon and Crawley.
- Those detained include nationals from Pakistan, Brazil, India, Gambia and Ghana and several were arrested for overstaying visas.
- All ten people have been placed on immigration bail while the Home Office says it will pursue removals as soon as possible and continues its inquiries.
- Evri says it carries out right-to-work checks for employees and will cooperate with investigators, but liability may turn on whether workers were supplied through subcontractors.
- The raids sit against a surge in enforcement last year and the introduction in October of a legal duty to check gig and zero-hours workers, which could expose delivery firms to fines of up to £60,000 per illegal worker.