A Tauranga company director has denied a raft of migrant worker exploitation charges.
Jafar Kurisi, 56, a company director from Parkvale, pleaded not guilty to six new charges in the Tauranga District Court today through his lawyer Bill Nabney.
Kurisi, who is also known as Md Wagid Ali, earlier denied two further charges which relate to the same prosecution case.
He has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of allegedly exploiting an unlawful employee, which relates to four complainants, and a further charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
The exploitation charges state that as an employer while allowing an unlawful employee to work for him Kurisi had seriously defaulted in terms of payments owed to workers under the Minimum Wage and Holiday Acts.