Singapore raids ‘jobs scam’ firm
Thursday, October 2nd, 20082/10/08
Authorities in Singapore have raided the premises of an engineering company following an Al Jazeera report on allegations that migrant workers were being kept there under duress. Singapore’s manpower ministry said it raided the offices of San’s Marine on Friday and have since launched an investigation. Last month Al Jazeera correspondent Tony Birtley visited the company’s warehouses and found about 30 migrant workers being held there in what the workers called “the cage”. Our correspondent was investigating how workers from Bangladesh were being ripped off in highly-organised false job scams, paying exorbitant fees to agents in exchange for broken promises of high paying jobs.
