{"id":61459,"date":"2024-07-02T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=61459"},"modified":"2024-07-02T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:25:07","slug":"how-your-5-hand-car-wash-could-be-funding-a-criminal-empire-rogue-firms-are-fuelling-modern-slavery-money-laundering-and-tax-evasion-experts-warn-as-workers-are-smuggled-into-uk-by-gangs-who-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/02\/how-your-5-hand-car-wash-could-be-funding-a-criminal-empire-rogue-firms-are-fuelling-modern-slavery-money-laundering-and-tax-evasion-experts-warn-as-workers-are-smuggled-into-uk-by-gangs-who-steal\/","title":{"rendered":"How YOUR \u00a35 hand car wash could be funding a criminal empire: Rogue firms are fuelling modern slavery, money laundering and tax evasion, experts warn as workers are smuggled into UK by gangs who steal wages and force them to live in appalling conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61460\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/car-wash-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/car-wash-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/car-wash.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Motorists enjoying cheap \u00a35 hand car washes may be unwittingly fuelling modern slavery, money laundering and tax evasion, experts warned today &#8211; as the number of sites edged past 5,500.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13575241\/Hand-car-wash-funding-criminal-empire.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Motorists enjoying cheap \u00a35 hand car washes may be unwittingly fuelling modern slavery, money laundering and tax evasion, experts warned today &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-migration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/car-wash.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61462,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459\/revisions\/61462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}