A few conglomerates have taken over several billion pounds by taking hostages of the new Bangladeshis in Britain. The legal cost of issuing a care visa is around three hundred pounds (forty thousand in Bangladeshi taka). Thousand Bangladeshi workers are being trapped by “repayment clauses,"  given false promises, forced to live in squalor, and charged thousands of pounds in illegal recruitment fees.

There are concerns about suspected fake companies sponsoring visas after hundreds of licenses were reportedly granted to firms that are just a few months old and have no history of providing care. 

More than 250 businesses that have never been inspected by the CQC are also believed to have been granted licenses to sponsor workers from abroad.

Suspected bogus companies with copy-and-paste websites, fake-looking reviews, and PO boxes as addresses are among those granted licenses allowing them to sponsor workers to come to the UK. 

But especially in the name of bringing people on care visas, approximately forty to fifty lakh taka have been taken from each family, including husband and wife and children. During the severe foreign exchange crisis in Bangladesh, hundreds of crores of taka of human trafficking in the name of visas have been smuggled mainly through the backdoor.  The Home Office has already revoked the licenses to bring in foreign workers from around 150 bogus care homes.

The employers concerned could not give work to more than 90 percent of the thousands of workers who came from Bangladesh on care visas. Unable to work, hundreds of Bangladeshis are roaming around with their families with visa cancellation notice letters in their hands. But the conglomerates that dream of a better life have taken away hundreds of crores. Traffickers have bought houses and hotels in Dubai and London with money smuggled through hundis.  There are some Bangladeshis who identify themselves as lawyers in this organised circle.

Recently, several Bangladeshi-owned law firms in East London have been inspected by Britain's legal services regulatory body. There is also evidence that some high-profile lawyers were directly involved in the multi-million-pound brokering of care visas. In the community, some senior citizens are trying to recover the money stolen through fraud. Serial reports are coming about this. Please keep an eye on Daily Dazzling Dawn.