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Mumtaz Ladha

Mumtaz Ladha: The employer, 60-year-old Canadian citizen Mumtaz Ladha, is facing several charges, including the human-trafficking of the 26-year-old Tanzanian woman who cannot be identified under a publication ban. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The court heard the young woman grew up with her two older siblings and parents in a house with running water and electricity. VANCOUVER - A young woman from East Africa had lived a life of hardship and poverty before meeting the employer who eventually brought her to Canada and allegedly forced her into domestic servitude, a human trafficking trial heard Wednesday. The alleged victim, wearing glasses and a black outfit, testified at B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday that she began working as a housekeeper for Ladha in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, when she was about 14 years old. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.