Maldives Immigration has deported a Bangladeshi national who was illegally bringing in expatriate workers to the Maldives.

Immigration said that in a joined operation with the Maldives Police Service, they arrested the man yesterday. They said that the man arrested was MD Shafeequl Islam, 49, also has a business in the Maldives.

While Immigration stopped two people on 7 and 8 September trying to enter the Maldives on false IDs, the complaint of illegal expatriates has existed for a long time in the Maldives.