Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli has highlighted how the government had essentially been “locked out from its own system” in Bestinet Sdn Bhd’s digital recruitment system of Bangladeshi migrant workers into Malaysia.

Following a Jan 23 expose by Bloomberg on the exploitation of Bangladeshi migrants, Rafizi recalled previous findings by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Auditor-General’s Department, which found that there was never a formal contract signed between the government and Bestinet, which collected RM100 from each worker for the service...