Bangladeshi arrested for illegal employment scam

Singapore, May 19: A local in Singapore has jailed a Bangladesh national Abul Basher Md Khabiruddin for 24 weeks and fined him 32,500 Singapore dollars on charges of conducting illegal employment activities.

The prosecution took into consideration the rest of the 44 charges during sentencing by the local court yesterday.

The Manpower Ministry said it has been monitoring illegal employment activities by Abul Basher for several months and arrested him on March 13. The authority also arrested 66 foreign workers involved in the employment scam.

Abul Basher recruited workers to do marine works under relevant permits, but then hired them illegally to work as construction workers, general workers and cleaners at various locations in Singapore.

Abul Basher had two marine companies - Top Man Workgroup Construction and Engineering, and Super Workgroup Construction Engineering, under the proprietorship of a Singaporean, according to Singapore's Channel News Asia report.

UNI