DHAKA, Nov 11, 2025 (BSS) -The ACC today filed four separate cases against the owners of four recruiting agencies for realizing extra money from the workers, embezzling and laundering money in Malaysian labour market.

The five accused in the cases have misappropriated Taka 310,93,00,000 sending 18,563 labourers to Malaysia realizing extra money than the government fixed amount.

Director General of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Md Akhter Hossain disclosed the information to the journalists at its regular media briefing at the commission headquarters here.

ACC Assistant Director (AD) Minhaz Bin-Islam filed the cases with the Dhaka-1 Integrated Office here.

The accused are - Chairman of Celebrity International Farida Banu, its managing director Md Abdul Hay, owner of Adity International Biswajit Saha, owner of Rabbi International Mohammad Bashir and owner of R Ving Enterprise Hefzul Bari Mohammad Lutfar Rahman.

According to the ACC investigation, the accused persons in connivance with each other, with an ulterior motive realized extra money from the labourers by sending them to Malaysia through criminal misconduct and using illegal powers. They also violated the terms and conditions of the registration act of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) and Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA).

The ACC during its investigation found that the Celebrity International realized Taka 58,39,05000 from 3486 workers, Adity International realized Taka 64,52,10,000 from 3852 worker, Rabbi International collected Taka 52,72,90,000 from 3148 workers and R Ving Enterprise realized Taka 135,28,97,000 from 8,077 labourers.

The government earlier fixed the expenses of passports and medical examinations of all Malaysia bound labourers but the accused persons realized extra money from each of the labourer and did not refund the extra money to them despite repeated instructions. They misappropriated the money, transferred, converted and laundered it to Malaysia. 

The ACC found the authenticity of the allegations through scrutinizing the departmental investigation report, BMET reports and statements of the concerned witnesses. So that the ACC lodged the cases under sections 120(B), 161/ 162/ 163/ 164/165(Ka)/420/409/109 of Bangladesh Penal Code and sub-sections 2 and 3 under section 4 of the Money Laundering Prevention Act-2012.