Oct 31
Restaurateur faces jail
A Sydney Indian restaurant owner has been acquitted of exploiting a worker he brought to Australia from India, but convicted of falsifying documents to secure him a visa. Yogalingam Rasalingam, 44, faces a maximum of five years’ jail after being found guilty yesterday of dishonestly influencing an Immigration official by forging the signature of cook Anbalagan Rajendran on an employment contract supporting his visa application. Commonwealth prosecutors told the court Rasalingam arranged for Mr Rajendran, 24, to be brought from Thanjavur in southern India and made to work 14 hours a day in his curry houses in Sydney’s Blue Mountains. Rasalingam will face sentence on November 2. Weekend Australian, October 27.
