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Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
08DHAKA459	2008-04-23 11:24	2011-08-26 00:00	UNCLASSIFIED	Embassy Dhaka

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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 DHAKA 000459 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR: USAID, G/TIP, G, INL, DRL, IWI, PRM, SCA/RA, SCA/PB 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BG
SUBJECT: EMBASSY DHAKA UPDATED INFORMATION FOR EIGHTH ANNUAL 
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT 
 
REF: STATE 02731, DHAKA 00290 
 
¶1.  This cable provides updated information provided by the 
Government of Bangladesh regarding its efforts against trafficking 
in persons (TIP) in the April 2007 to March 2008 reporting period. 
Embassy point of contact is Kapil Gupta, Political/Economic Officer, 
telephone: 880-2-885-5500 x 2206, IVG post-code: 583, fax number: 
880-2-882-3744, e-mail: guptak@state.gov. 
 
UPDATED INFORMATION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS 
 
¶2.  With respect to law enforcement of Bangladesh's formal anti-TIP 
legislation, The Repression of Women and Children Prevention Act of 
2000(amended in 2003), note the following corrected statistics for 
the reporting period: 
 
Investigations = 123 cases [Increase by 16 from REFTEL B) 
Arrests = 106 persons [Increase by 25 from REFTEL B] 
Prosecutions = 101 cases [Increase by 7 from REFTEL B] 
Under the purview of Bangladesh's judiciary: 
Convictions = 20 persons (18 life, one ten year, and one 14 year 
sentence) [Increase by 5 from REFTEL B] 
 
¶3. The Government of Bangladesh has provided post with additional 
information on law enforcement actions by the Dhaka Metropolitan 
Police and the Rapid Action Battalion.  All of these 
cases/complaints involve employment agents and/or travel agencies 
facing criminal charges for activities directly related to labor 
trafficking. These criminal cases were filed under the Penal Code of 
Bangladesh, under applicable sections relating to fraud, criminal 
breach of trust, forgery, using forged documents and abetment, and 
cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property. [Note, these 
arrests and cases were not filed under The Repression of Women and 
Children Prevention Act of 2000(amended in 2003).] These are 
offenses that are not defined explicitly as trafficking, but for 
which the facts constitute a trafficking offense. 
 
Law enforcement by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (under ZIA airport 
police station jurisdiction): 44 cases, against 48 individuals, 
including more than 30 recruiting and travel agents (and company 
owners) from the period of April 2007 to April 6, 2008.  Currently 
17 of these cases are under trial, final reports have been submitted 
of five cases, and 19 cases are under investigation. (Information on 
3 cases was not available.) 
 
Law enforcement by the Rapid Action Battalion: From April 2007 a 
total of 28 persons have been arrested for fraud, cheating, and 
using forged documents. This includes a total of 17 cases filed 
against labor recruitment or travel agencies.  In this reporting 
period the RAB has received a total of 141 complaints against travel 
and recruiting agencies. 
 
This new law-enforcement information represents an additional 76 
persons arrested in 2007 for labor-trafficking related criminal 
offenses, and 61 cases initiated.  This number does not include the 
arrests of high-profile individuals and government ministers on 
corruption charges, several of whom were suspected of involvement in 
labor trafficking activities, or who otherwise materially benefited 
from corruption around labor trafficking activities. 
 
DHAKA 00000459  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
 
UPDATED INFORMATION ON DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS 
 
¶4. The Government of Bangladesh has expanded bilateral diplomatic 
efforts to secure the rights of Bangladeshi workers in 
labor-receiving countries through Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) 
regarding expatriate workers.  The MOUs establish legal, regulatory 
and procedural mechanisms to facilitate licit international labor 
flows.  Simultaneously, the MOUs seek to establish mechanisms for 
ensuring the rights of expatriate laborers, eliminating labor 
recruiting malpractices, and providing means for abused workers to 
obtain assistance.  The first such MOU was signed between Bangladesh 
and Malaysia in 2006. 
 
During the 2007 reporting period Bangladesh concluded three 
additional Expatriate Worker MOUs and began discussions on a fourth: 
UAE (May 2007), Korea (June 2007), Qatar (January 2008), and Oman 
(discussions underway; not yet signed.) Once concluded, the MOUs are 
issued as office orders by the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and 
Overseas Employment to the applicable regulatory authority, the 
Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET). 
MORIARTY

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