Hundreds of arrests on a factory premises of the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai in the USA have led to diplomatic moods.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said that the US message was sent that it was concerned about the processes at Hyundai and regret them. Economic activities of the companies investing in the United States as well as the rights and interests of their own citizens should not be violated in a “unfair manner”.
The carmaker reacts
The carmaker announced when asked by the DPA that, according to the current state of knowledge, none of the arrested people were employed directly at the Hyundai Motor Company. You stick to laws and regulations. The investigation was carried out on a company for a company for battery cells. According to their website, this is a joint venture in which the Hyundai Motor Group and a South Korean energy company are involved.
What the public prosecutor says
The public prosecutor’s office in the United States said that it was about the ongoing studies that it was about avoiding illegal employment and exploitation of employees.
The previous day, according to the US authorities, there was a search in a battery plant near Hyundai in the US state of Georgia, among other things, from the FBI and the ICE immigration authority. Around 475 foreigners were arrested, who should either be illegally in the United States or would work there without the appropriate permission, it said by an investigator of the US Ministry of Homeland. The majority of them are Koreans. The investigator did not give exact figures.
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Bryan County (dpa-Afx)