CID launching drive to net 'slave' traffickers
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police will launch a drive today to track down those involved in trafficking Bangladeshis to work as slaves in Thailand.
“We will question the victims after their return from Thailand. Then we will start our investigation to identify the persons or gangs involved in trafficking,” Ashraful Islam, special superintendent of CID, told The Daily Star.
Once the rescued file cases against the alleged criminals, the CID will starts its drive to detain them and bring them to justice, he added.
Recently, the Thai police rescued 118 self-claimed Bangladeshi trafficking victims from the southern border of the Southeast Asian country.
They are now kept at different detention centres for completing their nationality verification for their repatriation, said officials at Bangladesh embassy in Bangkok.
They said the rescued Bangladeshis are usually lured to send to Malaysia for different jobs and thus the traffickers confine them from the Bay of Bengal.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira), the platform for private manpower agencies condemned the trafficking incident.
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