Ramu Sapkota in Kathmandu with Alyaa Alhadjri in Kuala Lumpur Nepali Times | 20 July 2018 A deeply-rooted nexus of politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats in Nepal and Malaysia have looted more than Rs5 billion over the past five years from vulnerable Nepali migrant workers desperate to seek work in Malaysia. Nepal’s Labour Minister Gokarna Bista […]
By: SM Najmus Sakib Dhaka Tribune | 9 March 2017 Rampant corruption by government officials is pushing up the visa processing cost for aspiring migrant workers by up to five times than the government-fixed rate, TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman has claimed. “Nine out of every 10 migrant workers are victims of corruption,” he said, while
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Star Online Report Around 90 percent male migrant workers fell victim of corruption in 2016, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) said today. “Destination country’s employers and recruiting agents with Bangladesh recruiting agents deal with the buying and selling of Visas,” TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman alleged while replying to a query at a programme held at
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27 January 2015, The Malaysia Insider PKR has named another director of Bestinet Sdn Bhd (Bestinet), the company caught in a storm over the controversial biometric health checks for migrant workers. Sungai Petani MP Datuk Johari Abdul and PKR Youth information chief Lee Chean Chung said the director is Datuk Tengku Omar Tengku Bot, who
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25 August 2014, Jakarta Globe Jakarta. A former top Indonesian official in charge of migrant worker protection has demanded an investigation into the police chief of East Nusa Tenggara province, or NTT, over indications of police complicity in the alleged trafficking of migrant workers, both within the country and abroad. “I suspect that there’s a
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