About 160 foreign work-pass holders - mostly domestic workers - who borrowed money from unlicensed moneylenders and loan sharks have been repatriated since last October and barred from employment here.
Two maids are also being investigated by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) for acting as brokers for licensed moneylenders and profiting from it.
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