Bangladesh has yet to fulfill a US government request for the bank and business records of five individuals charged with fraud in a foreign-labour-contracting scheme.
The defendants, including a Bangladeshi named Muksedur Rahman, were accused of collecting large amounts of money from 12 people in exchange for providing them with jobs in the US.
According to a federal agent’s statement, the accused planned and conducted a scheme to defraud people seeking employment in the US by collecting an amount of between $12,500 and $18,750 from each victim.
Muksedur and his co-schemers allegedly instructed the victims to make the payments to various accounts owned by Muksedur ‘s relatives and in-laws living in the US, according to which the money was deposited directly to the accounts of the family members, US Homeland Security agent Mark Yamanaka said.
The majority of the payments allegedly occurred in Bangladesh.
The defendants planned to execute the scheme by defrauding US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department for obtaining CNMI CW-1 work permits and non-immigrant visas for the victims.
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In addition to Muksedur Rahaman, the four other other defendants charged at the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) are: MD Rafiqul Islam, Shahinur Akyer, David Trung Quoc Phan and Analyn Nunez.
A sixth man, Zeaur Rahaman Dalu, was also originally charged but struck a plea bargain with the US government.
The US government transmitted its request to the Bangladesh government for foreign evidence in the case on July 11, 2017.
The federal court has already moved the trial date from August 15 to August 28, 2017.
Mark Yamanaka told the US federal court that Bangladesh has informed them about providing the records “very soon”.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
