Law coming to stop migration fraud
Within the next six months, the government will enact a migration law to stop fraudulence in the country's manpower export, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said yesterday.
“The law will have provisions of stern punishment for those found involved in fraudulent activities,” he said in parliament.
He also said Bangladesh would “soon” start sending workers in Malaysia after an agreement between the two countries was signed.
Some recruiting agents have been blamed for issuing fake work permits, visas and even passports to migrating worker.
The minister said some 17.55 lakh Bangladeshi workers got jobs in 143 countries in the last three and a half year-tenure of the present government. Of them, nearly one lakh were female workers.
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