Two India national’s who owned two nightclub joints in Singapore have been found guilty after illegally harboring three Bangladeshi nationals.
This is is the first case in the country to be convicted of a violation of labor Trafficking.
The 49-year-old and 29-year-old couple from India hired three Bangladeshi Nationals as dancers for the nightclub. They were offered a salary of around $980 a month. They were forced to work in the nightclub 7 days a week at Boat Quay even if they are sick and forced to let customers touch them.
The employers confiscated their passports on arrival and confiscated any tips the three dancers are.
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One of the victims was also forced to work as a prostitute, the victim was also forced to go out with customers when the victim refuses they will face physical abuse from the employer. When the victim told the employer that she wants to go back to her home country, the employer would ask for “compensation”.
The defendant denied all allegations and said that they did not force the victim to have sex with customers.
The couple will be sentenced on the 19 of December