Dhaka-based Financial Express, which quoted the ACC director, named several different elected members involved in the migrant workers recruitment industry being investigated by the government.
Prothom Alo, a Bengali-language everyday, had likewise reported extensively on the ACC assault and named another elected representatives.
SERIOUS Consequences
Left activists and political analysts believe that the transplant assault on the so-called syndicates operating in the export of labor is a result of the broad and ambitious campaign launched by the new time government, led by Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus, to reform the court and police, and to clear up the government.
More than 400, 000 documented Bengal workers are present in the country, and a large number more are attempting to enter the country illegally. They make up for the country’s one of the largest numbers of foreign workers, who collectively make up almost 30 % of the country’s estimated 17 million people.
The main goal of the ACC’s crackdown is the dismantling of a network of Bangladeshi and Indonesian businesses that has a monopoly over the recruitment of overseas workers, according to Bangladesh journalists reporting on the corruption scandal and executives from Dhaka-based recruitment agencies.
Bestinet Sdn Bhd, a Kuala Lumpur-based company, is a key player in Malaysia.  ,
The main goal of the onslaught is to “move apart from dealing with Bestinet and its network of companies and others in the gang that work outside the law,” according to Mr. Md Rezaul Karim, the managing director of the Dhaka-based recruitment company Hope Human Resources, in a phone interview over the weekend.
He added that the Bangladeshi crackdown has caused the offices of recruitment firms and labor brokers engaged in the recruitment of employees for the Indonesian market to close.  ,  ,
” The ACC walk is very effective, and the winds of change are blowing in the Bangladesh workers business”, he said.
WINDS OF CHANGE
The lakes in Malaysia are being roiling due to the advances in Bangladesh.  ,
Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, the home secretary, is spearheading a separate plan to reform the government’s contentious foreign worker recruitment business. He has ordered ministries under his government to look into allegations of corruption raised by the Bangladesh authorities as well as their possible connections to Malaysian state officials and businesses engaged in labor selection.
CNA asked for comment on several occasions, but Mr. Saifuddin and Bestinet did not respond.