Bangladeshi worker recruitment: 'Monopoly' was mostly KL's doing, say officials


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 01 Nov 2018

DHAKA (The Statesman/Asia News Network): The previous Najib Razak-led Malaysian government had created the manpower syndicate which “monopolised” the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers in the Southeast Asian country, according to officials and documents obtained by The Daily Star.

Following the Andaman boat crisis in 2015, Malaysia's then home minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said worker recruitment would be done through the private sector instead of the state-level mechanism, G2G.

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