The Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies (Nafea), the umbrella organisation of recruiting agencies, has even warned that it would disrupt all foreign employment related services for an indefinite period “if police continued raids”.The Metropolitan Police Crime Division on Wednesday raided 18 manpower companies on suspicion of duping foreign employment aspirants. A total of 12 persons were arrested. Eight have been remanded to 10-day custody while four have been sent to the Department of Labour for further investigation.
Nafea has claimed that more than 20 recruiting agencies operating in the Kathmandu Valley have been raided in the past few days “without prior information”.Nepal Police said the manpower companies were raided based on the complaints filed against them for swindling and exploiting foreign employment aspirants.According to police, dozens of complaints related to fraud have been filed against different manpower companies through Nepal Police’s hotline service.
Stating that they were “being treated like criminals”, Nafea representatives said deliberate attempts were being made to “displace us”.“We are under attack from all sides. It is a ploy to finish off agencies,” said Bimal Dhakal, chairman, Nafea, adding that recruiting agencies are now left with no option than to stop providing services.
More than 50 recruiting agencies in Kathmandu have submitted their operation license to Nafea, demanding that office bearers “take concrete steps to end police raj”.
Claiming that only the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) is authorised to deal with cases related to foreign employment, Dhakal said, “Police were taking law unto their own hands.” But the Foreign Employment Act states that the DoFE Tribunal shall have handle the cases related to foreign employment, and Nepal Police shall handle cases under Anti Human Trafficking Act and other acts related to fraud cases.
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