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Article

20 Jun 2023

Author:
Eric Lipton, The New York Times (USA)

Trump Real Estate Deal in Oman Underscores Ethics Concerns

…thousands of migrant laborers from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are at work in 103-degree heat, toiling in shifts from dawn until nightfall to build a new city…

Mr. Trump was brought into the deal by … Dar Al Arkan…

…migrant workers, who during the first phase of construction are living in compounds of cramped trailers in a desertlike setting and are being paid as little as $340 a month…

Next door is the second phase … that will be built by Dar Al Arkan…

The 30-year agreement between DarGlobal and the Trump … puts the Trump company in charge of the hotel budget, its restaurants and any retail stores…

More than 1,000 migrant laborers are busy in the searing heat building the first phase of the Oman government’s Yiti project. Next door, at the Aida site, where the Trump-branded phase of the project will eventually rise, work on the roads is just beginning.

…Oman has drawn scrutiny for its treatment of foreign workers…

Some low-skilled migrant workers in fields including construction “faced working conditions indicative of forced labor,” said the report…

Executives at DarGlobal, Dar Al Arkan and the Trump Organization declined to comment.