Barbers Took Bribes in Job Scam

11th January 2008

A group of hairdressers from Radom face between six months and eight years behind bars for a youth training scam.

A group of hairdressers from Radom face between six months and eight years behind bars for a youth training scam. A Radom police spokesman told a press conference that the crooked coiffeurs had taken as much as PLN 100,000 in bribes over the years for bogus work experience courses. The parents of youngsters desperate to get the practical experience necessary to enter hairdresser training courses had paid up to PLN 3,000 to get their children into salons. Once there, many of them never docked a lock, being made instead to sweep floors for no pay.
Their fictional wages were often l ...