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A recruiter found guilty of exploiting migrant workers, charging them crippling fees for finding them local greenhouse jobs, was ordered this week to repay the money he took from them.

Nehwin Wanhar, 41, collected about $15,400 from three Indonesian workers. Court heard Wanhar would send two cohorts — Dudy Supriyadi, 41, and Aji Suroto, 35, — to collect cash payments from the workers each week.

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The workers, not knowing the fees were illegal, would pay up fearing they would lose their jobs and be deported.

Wanhar was convicted for charging fees to three workers. One paid the illegal fees for nearly two years between July 2012 and May 2013. Two others paid the fees in 2013 and 2014.

“This began the moment they got here,” assistant Crown attorney Scott Pratt said Friday.

Pratt said charges were withdrawn against Supriyadi and Suroto since it was found that Wanhar was “the controlling force” in the operation.