A rolling Tuscan estate converted by the musician Sting into a paradise of vineyards and olive groves has been caught up in a police investigation after underpaid refugees were discovered picking grapes. Italian police investigating a gang who sent migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to work in what prosecutors describe as “inhumane and slave-like” conditions in Tuscany found they had been harvesting grapes on the estate, Il Palagio, where Sting produces award-winning wines. “Sting was out of the country at the time and knew nothing about this,” said Antonio Sangermano, a prosecutor, who added that no one working on the…

Source: The Times October 14, 2016 23:03 UTC