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Case against us part of plot by recruiting agency

Say returnee workers refuting allegation of fleeing workplace in Romania

Staff Correspondent
Returnee workers, who have been sued on charges of fleeing workplace in Romania, yesterday denied the allegations saying that they were actually forced to return home.
At a press conference at Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh auditorium in the city, they said the case filed against them with Motijheel Police Station is based totally on false information and is part of the recruiting agency's plot to cheat them.
They urged the government to help them recover the money that they had spent for going to Romania.
" Wc went for outing on a weekly holiday and were late by an hour. The company said we would be sent home. We begged pardon for the delay, but the company did not pay any heed to our prayer," said Mohammad Masud, one of the six workers who were sent back home on July 20 and were arrested upon return.
They are now free on bail.
Others who were sent back home are Abul Hossain, Mizan Ahmed, Bidhan Chandra Sutradhar, Mohammad Yunus and Humayun Kabir.
"Can an hour delay in returning from outing be a reason for sending us home?" he posed a question.
"Wc are now helpless. We therefore urge the chief adviser, army chief and others concerned to consider our issue," Masud said, adding that they got to know that the recruiting agency Al Abbas International is forcibly sending workers back so that it could send more new workers and earn more money.
Masud said they paid Tk 3 lakh to Al Abbas for going to Romania in May this year and according to job contracts they were supposed to work eight hours a day, but they were forced to work for 13 hours and were provided with a congested room for living.
"While staying in the room
beyond work hours, we were locked and it was opened only when we used to go to workplace," he said, adding that they even could not buy things for them, rather Abdul Hye, a representative of Al Abbas, used to buy tilings for
Hye also charged them more than the actual price of the food and oilier items, Masud noted.
"Yet, we were trying to work, because we spent a large amount of money for going there," he said.
Two other returnee workers Mohammad Humayun Kabir and Mohammad Yunus were present at the press conference.
When contacted, owner of the recruiting agency Mojibur Rahman Murad said claims of the workers are totally false.
"These six workers along with eight others actually made an attempt to flee to other countries. Other eight succeeded, but these six failed. Therefore, they are now saying that they were late in returning to the place where they were living," he said.
Around 30 workers earlier fled the workplace and the Romanian author -ities warned the company, which had recruited the workers, of not allowing to hire workers from Bangladesh if a single more worker flees.
"As these workers seemed to be disobedient the company did not allow them to work there and sent them home," Mojibur told The Daily Star.
"We have job demands for 1100 workers and by this time wc sent around 600 workers. European market is very sensitive. If we cannot comply with their rules, we will lose the market. We are therefore very careful about it," he added.