‘Malaysian labour market for BD nationals yet to reopen for syndicates’

Staff Reporter :
Former leaders of Bangladesh Association of International Recruitment Agencies (BAIRA) and country’s recruiting agency owners claimed that the Malaysian labour market for Bangladeshi nationals yet to reopen due to the malpractice of 25 recruiting agency syndicates.
According to the agency owners, BAIRA’s former Secretary General Ruhul Amin Swapan, also proprietor of Catharsis International, is the main leader of this syndicate working to interrupt the country’s migrants market for Bangladeshi workers for pocketing crores of taka.
At the same time, the general businessmen in this sector would miss the chance to send migrants to the country and face huge loss like the previous year of 2016. At a press conference held on Wednesday under the banner of BAIRA Anti-Syndicate Grand Alliance (BASGA) at Jatiya Press Club, the recruiting agency leaders demanded that licenses of all the recruiting agencies named in the syndicate including Swapan must be revoked and should be brought to justice. Ali Haider Chowdhury, organizer of the grand alliance and former secretary general of BAIRA, presented a written statement while former BAIRA president Abul Bashar, former secretary general Shamim Ahmed Chowdhury Noman replied various questions from the media side.
Former BAIRA vice presidents Shahadat Hossain and Abul Barkat, former finance secretary Fakhrul Islam, Recruiting Agency Unity Council President M Tipu Sultan and Secretary General Arifur Rahman were also present in the programme.