KualaLumpur (VNA) – Malaysia security forces have destroyed a humantrafficking syndicate which was spearheaded by a Bangladeshi businessman.
Initialinvestigation revealed that in just two years, that person raked in at leasttwo billion ringgit (nearly 500 million USD) from Bangladeshi workers lookingto land jobs in Malaysia.
Accordingto The Star newspaper, Bangladeshi workers paid 20,000 ringgit each to theirlocal agents who then paid half of the sum to the syndicate to facilitate workpermit approvals and flight tickets to Malaysia.
Itis learned that since late 2016, more than 100,000 Bangladeshi workers havebeen brought to Malaysia under the ring, while more than 100,000 are waitingfor their turn.
Investigationof the newspaper also revealed that the businessman, due to his strongpolitical influence in the two nations, was also instrumental in pushing thetwo countries’ signing of a government-to-government agreement in 2016 that gaveonly 10 companies from Bangladesh the right to recruit migrant workers forMalaysia.-VNA
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