Police arrest 47 Bangladeshi nationals after raid on unregistered security firm
09 May 2012, 5:51 PM
Neil Merrett
A total of 47 Bangladeshi nationals working for a local security firm were seized on Thursday by the Department of Immigration as part of a wider crackdown on unregistered migrant workers.
The detention of the expatriate workers comes after police late last year reported a “day-by-day” increase in human trafficking in the Maldives. The Maldives Police Service’s claims were based on a surge in the numbers of illegal expatriate workers found in the country.
Assistant Controller of the Immigration Department Ibrahim Ashraf told Minivan News that the 47 Bangladesh nationals were all apprehended following a raid of a company providing security guards that was not registered to employ foreigners.
Ashraf claimed that the company the men had been working for had been in operation for 10 -12 years, yet no information could be found on its operations.
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