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Illegal job brokering on the rise here, says migrant worker group
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Migrant worker advocacy group Transient Workers Count Too estimated that there could be $232 million flowing into the hands of unlicensed job brokers in Singapore each year.
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Bangladeshi construction worker Raju, 35, has come to Singapore six times to work, but he is none the richer for it.
Each time, he pays thousands of dollars to a broker to get a job. But he is always sent home before he can accumulate savings. "Eight years already, but my life result is zero," he told The Straits Times.
