11 December 2022 11:41 am Views - 995
A delegation of the Foreign Employment Bureau and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had left for Oman to investigate incidents related to human trafficking, The Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) said.
The team left on Sunday on the instructions of the Minister of Labor and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara to investigate the incidents related to human trafficking in Oman.
The Bureau said that the group includes an additional general manager of the SLFEB, three investigating officers and a police inspector and a female sub-inspector of the CID.
Information with regard to the human trafficking ring came to light after the CID received complaints of Sri Lankan female migrant workers being sent as domestic workers to Oman being sold at auctions to work as escorts. It was then also revealed that Sri Lankan women were being sent to Oman for employment under tourist visas and were being abused.
Earlier, the CID also arrested several suspects in connection to the human trafficking.(Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)