Kuwait: Former Bangladeshi MP guilty of human trafficking, facilitating migrant worker travel on fake contracts
摘要
日期: 2021年11月29日
地点: 科威特
其他
Not Reported ( 建筑 ) - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 孟加拉国 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )议题
殴打和暴力 , 人口贩运 , 招聘费回应
Response sought: 否
后续行动: Mohammed Shahid was sentenced to seven years in prison, a fine of KD2.7million (USD 8.9million) and deportation after he served his sentence.
信息来源: News outlet
"Kuwait issues final verdict in case of former Bangladeshi MP," 29 Nov 2021
The Kuwaiti Court of Cassation sentenced a former Bangladeshi lawmaker to seven years in prison for human trafficking and money laundering...
The authorities arrested the Bangladeshi MP in Kuwait on June 7 last year. He confessed to helping senior officials and the interior ministry in bringing migrant workers on fake contracts in exchange for sums of money...
The Criminal Investigation Department in Kuwait charged him with human trafficking, money laundering, and torturing employees of his company, based on complaints from five Bangladeshi migrant workers.
The accused MP was arrested in his home in the Mishref area and was charged with receiving money from dozens of workers in return for bringing them in from Bangladesh to Kuwait through a company he managed with illegal assistance from Kuwaiti officials accused in the case.