A LLANELLI chip shop has been found employing an illegal worker — shortly after being fined £5,000 for the same offence.

Tyisha Fish Bar in Tyisha Road could now face a fine of £10,000.

Following a tip-off, officers from the UK Border Agency swooped on the chip shop on Wednesday.

After staff documents were checked, a 31-year-old Indian man was found to have entered the UK illegally. He was stopped from working and placed on immigration bail.

He must report weekly to Llanelli Police Station and will be removed from the UK once an emergency passport has been secured.

A UK Border Agency spokesman said: "The takeaway was issued an on-the-spot penalty notice for employing the illegal worker.

"To avoid a fine of up to £10,000, the employers must prove to the agency they carried out the correct right-to-work checks to employ someone from outside the European Union. It comes two months after Tyisha Fish Bar was fined £5,000 for employing an illegal worker."

In April, agency officers found another Indian man employed at the chip shop, despite him having no legal right to work in the UK.

The spokesman said: "After being given time to produce evidence right-to-work checks were carried out, the employers were unable to do so and were fined £5,000."

A woman at Tyisha Fish Bar, who said she was the owner but declined to give her name, said when asked about the firm's previous fine: "I wasn't running the business then, it was someone else." Asked whether she would like to comment, she said: "I'm going to see my solicitor on Monday. I don't want to comment."