Human Trafficking: Mumtaz Ladha

Mumtaz Ladha: The employer, Mumtaz Ladha, a 60-year-old Canadian citizen who split her time between West Vancouver and Tanzania, is now on trial for several human trafficking-related offences. She is accused of lying to immigration officials in Tanzania to bring the young woman to Canada and then employing her illegally after they arrived, according to 660 News. The young Tanzanian woman stayed at Ladhas home in a posh area of West Vancouver until she fled to a shelter in June 2009 and VANCOUVER A young woman who hailed from humble beginnings in the East African country of Tanzania left behind her home and a three-year-old child for the promise of earning $200 a month in a Vancouver-area salon, only to be forced into domestic servitude with no pay and little means of escape, the Crown alleged Tuesday at a human trafficking trial. Ladha and the young woman, whose name is covered by a publication ban, arrived in the Vancouver area in August 2008, when the Crown alleges the victim was handed a maids outfit and set to work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.