Bangladeshi ‘human trafficker’ held in Libya
Libyan police on Thursday arrested a Bangladeshi national on charge of his involvement in trafficking 37 other Bangladeshis promising them of attractive jobs in the North African country.
The detainee has been identified as Sujan, a resident from Noakhali, Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli said on the embassy’s Facebook page today.
Around 30,000 Bangladeshis are now working in Libya, it added.
On November 8, the 37 Bangladeshi fortune seekers, who tried to reach Italy through Mediterranean Sea, were detained in Libya’s Gharyan town for illegally entering into the country, around 100km south of the capital Tripoli.
The embassy officials assured them of providing necessary assistance. Three weeks ago, Libyan police rescued at least 65 Bangladeshi fortune seekers from traffickers' den at Tajoura suburb of the war-torn nation's capital Tripoli.
The Bangladesh government officially banned sending its nationals to Libya in June last year on security grounds. Libya also suspended recruitment of workers against the backdrop of the troubling situation in the North African country.
These traffickers have been working for the last two or three years for some recruiting and travel agents based in Bangladesh.
Currently, more than 30,000 Bangladeshis are working in a risky situation in the North African country that repatriated 32,000 Bangladeshis in 2011 soon after the overthrow of long-time military ruler Muammer Gaddafi.
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