A Malaysian court yesterday jailed a Bangladeshi for 10 years, finding him guilty of trafficking three fellows through the Andaman Sea in Songkhla province of Thailand between 2014 and 2015. 

Nurul Islam, 32, admitted to the court in the Malaysian state of Perlis that he had trafficked three Bangladeshis -- Mohammad Nurbasa, Delwar and Joy -- between October 2014 and April last year, reports Malaysian daily The Star.

Meanwhile, a Thai national, Biau Wong Chumpo, 46, was charged with trafficking in Bangladeshi Tofajir Hussain between October 2014 and May 2 last year.

The report, however, did not elaborate further on the trafficking incidents.

Contacted, Musharrat Jebin, first secretary (labour) at Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, told The Daily Star that they had no information in this regard yet. “We will check the matter,” she added.  

Another official at the mission, however, said some cases had been filed against traffickers of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia.

Some 716 Bangladeshi migrants were among over 1,051 trafficking victims rescued from Langkawi Island of Malaysia on May 11 last year. The traffickers had abandoned them in the island after holding them captive in a Thai jungle for weeks.

Of the Bangladeshis, 670 have already returned home and the rest are still languishing in detention centre in Malaysia.

Besides, over 3,000 Bangladeshis were rescued in Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar last year after the issue of human trafficking through the Bay of Bengal got international media attention.