Pekerja Bangla terpaksa jual ladang, pinjam utk bayar fee RM20K #16

R2D2

EXCLUSIVEETALING JAYA: A human trafficking syndicate, spearheaded by a Bangladeshi businessman with alleged political connections with the Home Ministry, raked in at least RM2bil in just two years from Bangladeshi workers looking to land jobs in Malaysia.

An investigation revealed that the workers paid RM20,000 each to their local agents who then paid half of the sum to the syndicate to facilitate work permit approvals and flight tickets to Malaysia.

It is learned that since late 2016, more than 100,000 Bangladeshi workers have been brought into the country under the system, while more than 100,000 are waiting for their turn.

Our investigation also revealed that the businessman, who even has a “Datuk Seri” title, was the mastermind behind the organised and “legalised” multibillion-ringgit human trafficking scam.

Due to his strong political influence in both Malaysia and Bangladesh, the businessman was also instrumental in getting the two countries to sign a government-to-government agreement in 2016, giving only 10 companies from Bangladesh the right to recruit migrant workers for Malaysia.

The agreement ultimately sidelined about 1,500 recruitment agents in Bangladesh.

Furthermore, according to a source, some of the 10 authorised agents were merely fly-by-night companies created solely to rake in money by playing middleman between the workers and their prospective employers in Malaysia.

Despite the hefty RM20,000 price tag, the whole process – from documentation and transporting these workers to Malaysia – costed the agents less than RM2,000 a person.

“The ‘Datuk Seri’ has grown richer, his close aides and business associates living lavishly,” said the source.

“The Datuk Seri also shares a portion of the money he makes with politicians and government staff from both countries,” he said, adding that the man, who is in his late 40s, was married to a Malaysian for more than 15 years.

The source said the “Datuk Seri” even went a step further to grease what he described as a “well-oiled money-making scheme to exploit Bangladeshi workers”.

To facilitate the smooth operation of the system and to secure the interest of the 10 companies, he also set up a new online registration system called Sistem Perkhidmatan Pekerja Asing (SPPA), the only one that can be used to hire Bangladeshi workers.

Prior to the introduction of SPPA, Bangladesh was merely one of several source countries including Indonesia, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Myanmar that supplied a migrant workforce to Malaysia.

“Employers are required to pay RM305 for each worker hired from Bangladesh under SPPA, which is operated by a private company called Bestinet Sdn Bhd.

“The money collected under SPPA goes to Bestinet as a service charge for the distribution of the workers to their employers via the 10 companies,” said the source.

Migrant workers from the other source countries only needed to pay some RM2,500 to be hired in Malaysia, he added.

Bestinet was also the company that developed the Foreign Workers Centralised Management System (FWCMS), used by the Immigration Department for foreign workers’ visa applications.

Prior to the introduction of SPPA, the cost of hiring Bangladeshi workers was much lower, said Chirara Kannan, owner of a consultancy service for several employers in the Klang Valley.

“In the past, the workers only paid between RM7,000 and RM8,000 each,” he said.

However, Bangladeshi workers now had to pay off a legion of middlemen.

Chirara said workers paid the RM20,000 to “sub agents” from their villages, who then had to go through at least two more middlemen before they got connected to the local agents appointed by the Bangladesh government.

Previous licensed recruitment agents had now became “sub agents” for the big 10 companies, he added.

“It has gone from bad to worse as some employers even solicit commissions from the agents after realising that the workers were paying an exorbitant amount of money to work in Malaysia.

“Some of the employers receive up to RM1,500 in commissions for each Bangladeshi worker they hire,” said Chirara, adding that the reputation of the migrant worker recruitment industry had been “severely tarnished”.

kasibiman

Hah apa lagi. Takat ratib rule of law Jah.

Do the bloody work and bring this bastard to his knees la.

Changa

Tembak jah terus

R2D2

di depan rakyat pung pang sana sini kononnya negara perlukan ramai pekerja asing
rupanya ada udang sebalik batu

cmf_premierleag

RM 20K????
patutlah bangla kene ikat perut, duk umah sewa kongsi 20 org, jimat sehabis mungkin sbb nak kene bayar kos and hantar duit blk kampung lagi

ninja boy

selaynyakla kabel2 elektrik, besi2, aluminium2, barang2 majikan kena curi

leylapple

nie keja org zahid tu kan? bangla yang diangkat jadi dato seri...sapatah yang upload hari tu...

AbukRokok

cepatlah skit buat pembersihan etnik ni

pyropura

jahid Komidi punya keja lah nih, adik dia kan

JohnDeSouza

leylapple replied at 22-6-2018 10:06 AM
nie keja org zahid tu kan? bangla yang diangkat jadi dato seri...sapatah yang upload hari tu...

bila ndak kena hukum ni

missbelladania

kadang rasa  better hebahkan bila dh tangkap orang yg bersalah ni

takat pung pang pung pang bongkar sana bongkar sini

tapi tak ada pun yang ditangkap

dah jadi mcm boring pulak

kibodwatriuh

pyropura replied at 22-6-2018 04:50 PM
jahid Komidi punya keja lah nih, adik dia kan

adik dia dah tk terlibat lagi sejak 2016.

dani-rox

pastuh krik krik krik, takda tindakan.
kalau serius banteras human trafficking, harap ahli2 sindiket terutama ketuanya dihukum gantung sampai mati.

pokaibanktokyo

Newspaper employees worldwide are lazy bullshitters who owe money to loan sharks. Stories they publish should be taken with a pinch of salt

summerguy

Memang confirm Wak Pornmerogol dgn brother dia punya kerja..

R2D2

Families in Bangladesh sold farms and borrowed money to raise RM20K workers fee
    Saturday, 23 Jun 2018



SEPANG: Bangladeshi workers who arrived here recently said their families made great sacrifices to raise the RM20,000 each to find jobs in Malaysia.

The workers told The Star that their families sold cattle and farmland, and even borrowed money at high interest rates to secure employment here.

Even after securing the money, they had to wait for three to nine months before their turn arrived.

“I am happy to be in Malaysia but my priority is to work hard in order to repay the money raised by my family to enable me to get this job.

“Life is very tough back home and my family gave their savings to raise part of the money and borrowed from a moneylender,” said 32-year-old Mohd Rashadil.

He said even after raising the money, he had to wait nine months for his turn to fly to Malaysia.

Amirul, 22, said his family sold a piece of their land to raise the required sum.

“I know it will take some years to cover the cost of coming here, but I’ve no choice – I come here to support my family,” he said when met at klia2 with a group of 50 other workers.

Mohd Abdul, 34, said his family paid RM18,000 to an agent and he got a job within four months.

“I hope to get a high salary and overtime to help my family settle the loan,” he said, adding that he would be working at a factory in Nilai.

A Starprobe investigation found that a syndicate spearheaded by a Bangladeshi businessman with po­li­­tical connections to both countries has been allegedly operating a human trafficking scheme that exploits Bangladeshis while enriching himself and his associates.

The media in Bangladesh also expressed its concern and looks to the Pakatan Harapan government to resolve the issue.

If left unchecked, the image of Malaysia would be tarnished and Bangladeshi workers would not be seeking employment here in the future, warned Bangla TV Bureau chief Golam Rabbani Raza.

“The workers can’t afford that much but were driven by the temptation of earning a good income to help their families recover the cost in a short period,” he told The Star.

The workers, Golam said, cough­ed up between RM18,000 and RM20,000 each, but upon arriving in Malaysia, found their salaries were too low, requiring them to work for at least three years just to settle their recruitment fees.

Jamuna TV editor Ahamadul Ko­­bir said it was high time the recruitment system was cleaned up.

“We are looking at the new go­­vernment to act so that workers from our country do not have to pay RM20,000 to find employment in Malaysia,” he said.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh Embassy Labour councillor to Malaysia, Md Sayedul Islam, said his government only collected RM8 from each worker for the Centralised Workers Wel­fare Fund.

Asked why Bangladeshis were made to pay RM20,000 each, he said those questions should be directed at the government.

bungarose

Jahatnyer zalim

samasam90

kesiannya, tapi perangai mcm tahi, so puihhhhhh

olaklempit

Kalau baca tajuk tu betul ke jual segala mala utk dpt 20k nak dtg Msia? Kenapanya tak guna je duit tu utk hidup di sana. Dtg Msia pun gamble juga kdg majikan macam harom, ada yg gaji x dapat. Aku syorkan yg datang sini ada tempoh je kena balik. Contohnya 5 tahun, kot sempat dapat balik modal. Kesian juga depa ni yg dah sampai kena tipu agen bagai