The group involved in sending workers to Malaysia and other members of the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies faced off on Monday at their 33rd annual general meeting held in the capital鈥檚 Hotel Intercontinental.
The recruiting agents said that they attended the prescheduled AGM on time in presence of their members. At one stage of discussion they engaged in hot altercation over Malaysia issue.
On May 31, Malaysia shut doors to enter Bangladeshi workers over a huge irregularities and corruption over the recruitment process.
Officials said that in the AGM, BAIRA senior vice-president Reaz-ul-Islam complained against a syndicate for the migration crisis to Malaysia.
He said that over 50,000 workers turned victim of the syndicate after spending several times higher amount of money to migrate to Malaysia.
A group of members, including 10 members of BAIRA鈥檚 present executive committee, walked out of the meeting while others stopped them and allegedly assaulted them at the meeting.
Leaving the meeting, Reaz-ul-Islam in an immediate press conference held in another hotel complained that a syndicate increased Malaysia migration cost, got involved in corruption that destroyed country and trade image and caused sufferings to workers.
He blamed that the BAIRA president and secretary general supported the syndicate of 101 recruiting agencies.
BAIRA president Mohammed Abul Basher said that a group of members intentionally shouted in the meeting and at one stage walked out of the meeting.
鈥榃e continued meeting after they left the venue and completed the AGM,鈥� he said.
Malaysia, in August 2022, reopened the labour market after keeping it suspended for over four years over corruption allegations.
According to the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training data, a total of 50,004 Bangladeshi aspirants failed to migrate to Malaysia after completing almost all the processes.
Among them, 16,970 aspirant migrants couldn鈥檛 fly for Malaysia at the last minutes merely for air ticket crisis.
