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A Sheriff has threatened to summon a Home Office executive to her court to explain a delay in deciding whether two Vietnamese men were human trafficked.
Chien Le, aged 27, and 34 year old Thong Nguyn, have been charged with supplying and producing controlled drugs following a raid on the Highlander Hotel in Buckie last September.
They have been in custody for over seven months.
Both men, who are of no fixed abode, made no plea when they appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court immediately after the hotel raid and their case called once more on Tuesday.