in 2008, chércoles went to bangladesh to personally check the situation of a factory in dhaka, where there were verbal and physical abuse, as well as salary cuts. chércoles acknowledged that the factory was in "very bad" condition, but said there was no evidence they were manufacturing for inditex. he later discovered that he was associated with another factory that produced clothes for zara. the workshops were close to each other, and chércoles admitted that it was possible to transfer part of the production from one to another without inditex's permission or knowledge. a few years earlier he had discovered that the victims of the bopal disaster had not yet been compensated, because, as he told kofi annan, "there is no way to calculate them, nor any political intention (to pay them)".