MOVES are afoot to confiscate money from the former owner of a hotel near Appin who was jailed for three years for human trafficking.
At Fort William Sheriff Court last week, Sheriff William Taylor QC set the date of August 17 this year for a proof of confiscation to be heard against Shamsul Arefin, former owner of the Stewart Hotel.
Arefin was found guilty in July 2015 of breaches of the Asylum and Immigration Act between 2008 and 2010. The court heard then that he had brought four people from his native Bangladesh to work at the hotel and that they took out loans to pay him for working at the hotel.