KUWAIT: Five people were arrested
in connection with a major forgery racket that was involved in selling
forged work permits to Asian laborers. According to report, the five
released 20 work permits using a suspended license. Investigations got
went underway as per directions from the Interior Ministry’s Assistant
Undersecretary for Immigration Affairs, Major General Abdullah
Al-Rashid, who received information about a cleaning company involved in
human trafficking. The information indicated that the company’s license
was used to issue a forged request to hire drivers, based on which a
number of work permits were issued and then they were sold to expatriate
laborers. The laborers in turn used the forged permits to land in
Kuwait without being offered a job.
Migration department detectives first
contacted the labor department and found out that the company in
question was in suspension. The company’s owner was summoned for
investigations during which he divulged information about an Arab man he
had hired as a manager for the company and was given authority to sign
labor-related documents. The manager was also placed under arrest who
admitted that he was working with four other Arab men in forging
labor-related documents. Further investigations revealed that the racket
collected a total of KD 4,000 from 20 workers, KD200 from each, who
came to Kuwait using the fake driver permits. The five suspects will
remain in custody pending trial
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