Manpower supplier sought

Manpower supplier sought

AMBON, Maluku: Police are investigating reports that a manpower supplier illegally sent eight local job seekers to Malaysia last year.

Chief of the provincial office of manpower Sadjid said that the suspect, identified only as AA, may have fled the province on learning that he was wanted by the police.

The authorities moved to track AA down following a complaint from one of the job seekers, Ibnu Mulyono, that the manpower supplier had cheated him and left him in Malaysia without the promised job.

AA is suspected of smuggling the workers, who did not even have passports, Antara said.(pan)