Maldives suspends expat recruitment from Bangladesh amid "fake documents" probe
The ministry has stopped issuing permits for Bangladeshi unskilled expat workers until it investigates the submissions of forged documentations.
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The ministry has stopped issuing permits for Bangladeshi unskilled expat workers until it investigates the submissions of forged documentations.
Homeland security ministry on Wednesday temporarily stopped issuing work permits for Bangladeshi expatriate workers after it flagged multiple instances of forged documentations.
Homeland security minister Ali Ihusaan told Atoll Times that the ministry has stopped issuing permits for Bangladeshi unskilled expat workers until it investigates the submissions of forged documentations.
"We have held off on that [issuing work permits] since an investigation is underway. We have flagged several instances of forged documentations being submitted by some companies," he explained.
Homeland ministry has to work together with other ministries in order to validate the documents, Ihusaan added.
Maldives in 2019 stopped the recruitment of expats from Bangladesh. Later the law the was amended to cap the number of unskilled expats from a single country to 100,000.
The new government resumed issuing quota for Bangladesh expats, discounting the number of "active" work permits.
Ihusaan told the Parliament in March that although there are around 135,000 active work permits issued to Bangladeshi expats, the actual resident expat population was about 90,000.
