“…//..Reducing the spate of violent crimes in the country does not benefit their bank accounts so don’t expect any positive action to be taken…// -..lchk

It is one thing to say that no positive action is expected to address crime where there is no benefit to their bank accounts – it is quite another if the benefit to their bank accounts has a direct co-relation with the rise in crime and inability to manage the security situation!

You will note from The Star report on (Utar) student Tang Lai Meng’s rape/murder, it appears that “police are on the hunt for a Pakistani, who worked as a security guard at Bandar Mahkota, Cheras”….The suspect is a foreigner.

I believe there is always a correlation between the problem of human trafficking here and surge of crime. (The US recently added Malaysia to the Tier 3 category of the State Department’s seventh annual Trafficking in Persons Report, a classification reserved for countries with the worst human trafficking records). Human trafficking here would include both legal and illegal migration flows in to this country which interact with state policies and corruption in their implementation. The problems of influx of foreigners here are difficult and complex to resolve. Many people (including officialdom) have a cut and make money out of this lucrative industry of getting foreigners to work in this country and foreigners, both legal and illegal, flood the country. Our prisons are filled to the brim with them.

I doubt we can address crime problem effectively just from law enforcement perspective without considering the root causes of the bludgeoning crime directly or indirectly but not exclusively related or attributable in no small way to certain aspects of our state’s policies and the prevailing corrupt culture in the country.

It should be apparent that if there were a co-relation between corruption/state policies and violent crime, the government’s inability to check corruption or refusal to change certain of its policies will imply a similar inability to significantly improve the security situation and contain the crime problem.

You can expect such violent crimes to continue if not escalate.

It works this way. Crony (“Crony”) has contact with relevant Ministry’s official (“MO”) as well as recruiter (“Local Recruiter”) who has dealings with affiliate recruiter locally based in (hypothetically, say) Pakistan. MO gives Crony a quota of bring in (say) 10,000 Pakistani workers. Crony tells Local Crony who in turn informs Foreign Recruiter. Government imposes levy (say) RM1000 per worker (“Levy”), which has to be paid upfront. There must be somebody financing this outlay upfront which in many cases is Local Recruiter. He pays the Levy of RM10 million on behalf of Crony to relevant Ministry of Home Affairs. Local Recruiter comes out with another (say) RM10 million to secure Foreign Workers Calling Visas from the Immigration Department, pay for the Foreign Workers’ one-way ticket from Pakistan and their medical checkup (and also replacement of those medically unfit) and also for their makeshift quarters. Lets call this Out of Pocket Expenses or “OPE”.

In authentic cases Crony or its agents will arrange for prospective employers (“Employers”) who will undertake to absorb the 10,000 workers in their factories, plantations and offices. In fraud cases, there are no Employers. Employers would pay RM1000 per worker equivalent of the levy so for 10,000 it would be RM10 million refunded to the Local Recruiter for his initial outlay for the Levy. But how does he recoup the OPE of another RM 10 million and make profit, what about the share of others?

They get it back from the Foreign Worker, each undertaking to pay (say) RM5000, which times 10,000 amounts to RM50 million in excess of outlay of RM10 million for Levy and RM10 million for OPE giving a surplus of RM30 million for sharing.

The Foreign Worker obviously has no money to pay RM5,000 at the outset. He pays it in the tenure of his employment contract. It is monthly deducted from his pay. In exchange for the Employer being exempted from paying the Levy (paid by Recruiter) Employer will by legal agreement make sure a deduction of RM200+ is made from each Foreign Worker’s monthly wage if contract for 2 years or RM400+ if 12 months.

These deductions for 10,000 workers at RM5000 per worker will aggregate at end of 1 or 2 year tenure of employment to RM50 million. Net off 20 million for outlay of Levy and OPE for Recruiter, there is still left RM30 million surplus. Out of this RM30 million,

The Recruiter makes a profit of (say) – RM15 million for taking the financial risks, leaving balance of RM15 million from which relevant officials helping the Quota get for example RM8 million leaving the Crony with RM7 million.

Here we’re talking about a quota of 10,000 for easy computation. If it is for example 30,000 or 50,000, one would have to times (x) all figures by 3 or 5.

Isn’t that big money?

When you deduct either RM200 (for 2 year contract) or RM400 from a foreign worker whose wage is RM750 per month what disposable income has he got left to survive in this period? This is a kind of servitude and that’s why the US calls it human trafficking!

And we’re talking of those employed. What about those workers who paid equivalent of RM1000 in Pakistan and have been victim of scans ire having landed in Malaysia are stranded without employment or employer to be seen, no money to engage lawyers and no money to buy a ticket back?

Whether legal or illegal ther’s much incentives for him to break into your house; robs you and in that process, if opportunity presents itself, he would – as a pure response to opportunity rather than some over endowment of testosterone – also rape your young daughter or wife or old grandmother !

I am not saying all crimes are caused by such foreigners : some are locals from rural -urban drift, some displaced from plantations by the Foreign Workers and lower wages and some by reason of disparity of income in the cities and others under influence of drugs disseminated by these purveyors of these poisons for money in our towns and cities.

But it is a fact that foreigners are a high proportion. Of course our law enforcement agencies are still trying to buck up from inefficiency and corruption but even if overnight due to some wave of he magic wand they become efficient and clean, it is still questionable how are they going to address these bludgeoning problem the root causes of which are greed and corruption of both officials and our own entrepreneurs.

No point lamenting of crime in relation to bogeyman – the police man only – without taking the holistic and systems approach of addressing the main root causes, the principal of which is corruption.

Sorry, typo error in 4th para from top of posting – ” In exchange for the Employer being exempted from paying the Levy (paid by Recruiter)” should read as “In exchange for the Employer/Crony being GIVEN INITIAL ADVANCE BY RECRUITER IN RESPECT OF the Levy payable to government at the outset”….