Kathmandu, Dec. 24 -- Hussain came to Nepal from Bangladesh in October to work. His recruiting agents had promised him a job in a big carpet factory that would pay him Rs 50,000 a month. But when he arrived in Nepal, Hussain found himself working in a small carpet factory in Kathmandu and his pay was less than half of what was promised.

"I was paid only Rs 15,000 per month," Hussain told the Post over the phone from Bangladesh. Hussain said he had paid 1 lakh taka, equivalent to roughly Rs 134,000, to the recruiting agents for the job.

The plight of people like Hussain fits a broad pattern of deception where many overseas Bangladeshi job seekers are being left stranded by unscrupulous recruiting agents. In 2016, the government of Bangla...