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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday the 22nd of June.

Four members of the billionaire Hindugia family are given jail sentences in Switzerland for exploiting domestic servants.

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It is a stunning verdict.

Four members of Britain's richest family

have been sentenced to jail terms of at least four years for exploiting

immigrant staff at their mansion in Switzerland. The Hindugers thought to be worth

nearly 50 billion dollars were accused of spending more on their pets than on the servants that they brought over from their native India.

The Swiss court cleared them of human trafficking,

but convicted the fore of of vulnerable staff.

Prosecutors pursued the case despite the family reaching an out-of-court

settlement with the servants.

The family's lawyer said he was shocked by the sentence and would appeal.

I was sentiment that the behavior was judged on moral grounds and not on legal grounds.

On the one hand you have a very wealthy family and on the other poor people.

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