Brazil (Times of India) -The Brazilian federal police have rescued 80 Bangladeshis in Brasilia.All the Bangladeshis, who were lured with the promise of receiving a salary of US$1,500 a month,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, had reached Brazil after paying $10,000 each to the traffickers.Travelling more than 16,000km from their homes, the Bangladeshis entered Brazil without visas from three neighbouring countries: Peru, Bolivia and Guyana.The Bangladeshi embassy in Brasilia, the capital city Brazil, has expressed surprise at the news but it has offered its support to the Brazilian authorities in their investigation.The victims have not been arrested but advised to seek refugee status. Their cases will now be decided by the National Council for Refugees.According to the National Secretary of Justice,NFL Jerseys Supply, Paul Abram,Wholesale Jerseys, Brazilian law provides that victims of human trafficking and people working in degrading conditions can get resident visas on humanitarian grounds.“The first step is to confirm the occurrence of trafficking and slave labour since the simple fact of being identified as victims of trafficking gives them protection from the Brazilian state,” the secretary told reporters in Brasilia.The federal police launched an operation, called “Freedom”,Cheap Jerseys, after noticing a sharp rise in the number of asylum claims by Bangladeshis in recent years. In 2010, there were 39 such cases but the number went up to 111 in 2011. Last year, the Bangladeshis were one of the four countries from where Brazil gets the maximum number of asylum seekers and refugees.On Wednesday, the federal police teams,cheap nfl jerseys online, tracking the victims, found them in six places in Fern, a satellite town of Brasilia.According to the police, all the victims were living in very bad conditions, with 20 people crammed into a room. Currently unemployed, they have been looking for work in the construction sector. Now, some of them are afraid of going back to their country, where the majority of population is trapped in poverty.Melad Ahmed, 35, came to Brazil illegally to work in poultry industry in Parana state, but he was taken to Brasilia. “I cannot go back. In Dhaka, I have no job and money. Here, I can work in construction, slaughter house and Indian restaurants. I will do any service,” Ahmed told Estadao de Sao Paulo newspaper in his broken English.“If I return to Bangladesh, I will have trouble with the police.”Leaving his wife and son in Dhaka, according to Estadao,Cheap Jerseys Store, Ahmed travelled from Dhaka to Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia, with stops in Dubai, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. From Bolivia, he took buses to Parana and from there he arrived in the federal capital.The growth of new routes being used by international traffickers to bring illegal immigrants to Brazil has set the alarm bells ringing in Brazil. The first to use these routes were Haitians, who received special treatment due to the critical situation in their country.However, the same routes are now being used by Africans and Asians who pass seven different countries until they reach the border of Brazil, often paying thousands of dollars to middlemen and smugglers who take them to Brazil through the porous borders with Peru and Bolivia, which are covered in heavy vegetation and difficult to patrol.With its economy growing and the wages getting better, Brazil is now becoming a destination for migrants from poor countries, including Bangladesh.

New York – On March 23, 2009, NYPD Internal Affairs Sgt. Ramon Valdez filed an Investigating Officer’s Report citing Officer Jose Ramos of suspected unauthorized use of a parking permit and something far less mundane – associating with a suspected drug dealer in the Bronx.The Guyana-born suspected dealer, Lee King – better known by his street name, Marco Mack – had a second job managing a Mott Haven barbershop owned by Ramos.According to the report,China Jerseys Cheap, Mack drove Ramos’s 2007 Nissan Murano,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, used his NYPD parking placard and kept a .380 handgun in a shop safe that may have also held drugs.Officer Jose Ramos is a key player in the birth of the massive ticket-fixing scandal.The investigation into Ramos’s ties with Mack abruptly took a dramatic turn on August 18, 2009, when Ramos got a call from a friend,Cheap Jerseys From China, Steven Barbu,Cheap Jerseys From China, who wanted help getting a ticket fixed.Intrigued, Internal Affairs Bureau investigators kept listening. There was another call that month, then eight more in October – all to discuss what ultimately was a failed, almost comical attempt to fix the same ticket.It was the start of what would become an explosive probe into ticket-fixing at the NYPD.On October 3, 2009 Ramos took a call from a man – his identity unclear,Wholesale NBA Jerseys, according to the documents – who apparently had been given a Criminal Court summons after getting involved in a fight in which he flashed gang signs.Ramos fixed the ticket, according to the documents,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and for the first time, it appears, Ramos benefited from the favour – free admission to a party and work for his son.“The unknown male told Jose [Ramos] that he wanted to see him so he could take care of him,” the documents read. “Jose said, ‘No problem.’”“Jose said money was tight because they were going to [the Dominican Republic] less than a week after the party. The unknown male told Jose to invite a few people. He has the tablecloths, the trays for the food, ice. Jose said the food and decorations are the most expensive. Unknown male said his price would be like $7 a person.“They also spoke about Jose’s son working for the unknown male. The unknown male said that he needs him every Saturday at 9o’clock, $15 an hour (5 hours).”‘He didn’t do nothing for me’That man, reached by the Daily News, wouldn’t identify himself but said that he did hire Ramos’s son.Pressed for details, he reversed course. “He didn’t do nothing for me,” the man claimed.In other phone conversations that month about fixing tickets, Ramos didn’t appear to ask for anything in return.In one case, he worked to help “Angie,” apparently a domestic violence victim who was living in a shelter. She was trying to get Ramos to fix a ticket for a friend of hers.In another, he promised to help out a barbershop worker who got a parking ticket.Ramos, who joined the NYPD in 1993 and is now 42, has been on modified duty since virtually the beginning of the internal investigation.He is assigned to the Housing Bureau and is likely to be indicted on several felonies, sources said.He has refused to discuss the investigation, other than to say he did nothing wrong.Mack has a felony burglary conviction on his record. In another case, he was arrested for drug possession and eventually pleaded to unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He could not be reached for comment.Barbu feigned ignorance, claiming he doesn’t know Ramos and hanging up the phone. (New York Daily News)