Will law-enforcers be really tough with fraudulent travel agents?
Thursday, 16 April 2009
I wonder how long this will go on, how long will people of this country continue to suffer on account of fraudulent travel agents who also double as job providers in foreign lands? Hundreds continue to be tricked by these people but very few of these charlatans are ever caught, let alone get punished. Many of them simply disappear and nothing is ever heard of them again. But others simply lie low for a period of time before surfacing again to carry out their nefarious activities under a new name.
How many of our hapless citizens who were fooled by these people into accepting their offer for a hefty price paid with their lives? Hundreds have been reported ending up dead in foreign land and waters. Sometimes the bodies are returned but many are never seen or heard from again. How many have died in the seas and in the jungles of far away countries?
I recently read a harrowing account of a young man when a recruiting agent (as they are also called) sent a group to Greece. They travelled clandestine to Pakistan and then through Iran to Turkey. Then they ended up in the Mediterranean. This young man was the only one who survived and was able to swim and make it to Greece. The rest of his companions all perished.
And these con artists spare no one as they even regularly do this cheating with those wanting to perform hajj. And many of those people who are tricked have actually handed over their entire savings or proceeds from the sale of whatever property they owned. Will the law enforcers kindly do something about it?
Faruk Ahmed
Banani,
Dhaka.
How many of our hapless citizens who were fooled by these people into accepting their offer for a hefty price paid with their lives? Hundreds have been reported ending up dead in foreign land and waters. Sometimes the bodies are returned but many are never seen or heard from again. How many have died in the seas and in the jungles of far away countries?
I recently read a harrowing account of a young man when a recruiting agent (as they are also called) sent a group to Greece. They travelled clandestine to Pakistan and then through Iran to Turkey. Then they ended up in the Mediterranean. This young man was the only one who survived and was able to swim and make it to Greece. The rest of his companions all perished.
And these con artists spare no one as they even regularly do this cheating with those wanting to perform hajj. And many of those people who are tricked have actually handed over their entire savings or proceeds from the sale of whatever property they owned. Will the law enforcers kindly do something about it?
Faruk Ahmed
Banani,
Dhaka.