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Foreign
Employment Bureau raids recruiting agency
By
Lakna Paranamanna
The Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) raided a recruiting agency
in Maradana yesterday, which issued stolen visas and sent
underage people abroad for employment.
Time Asia; the recruiting agency in question, had been sending
employees to Middle Eastern countries including Kuwait and
Qatar, and is supposed to be registered under the labour licence
number 1800 in the FEB. “This should be considered as
a grave matter, because when agencies that are registered
and authorised commit scandals of this manner, we cannot ask
the public to have faith in the authorities,” remarked
FEB Chairman Kingsley Ranawaka.
The agency has allegedly attempted to send an underage employee
abroad, who is speculated to be around 15. “The underage
employee has admitted the fact that she is underage and that
she attempted to go abroad using a false visa,” added
Ranawaka. The investigations are continuing under the supervision
of Ranawaka.
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