Foreign worker from Bangladesh hang himself after falling victim to employment scam

Yahoo! Singapore News, 12 Jan 2012
A 20-year-old foreign worker who was found hanged in late October last year killed himself out of guilt for unwittingly getting friends involved in a scam, a court heard on Wednesday, according to media reports.
A spokesperson for Transient Workers Count Too told Yahoo! Singapore that in such scams as described at court, the work permits of foreign workers are sold off to illegal immigrants to help them gain employment. Full story

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