Dhaka, Sept. 26 -- Bangladesh is no longer facing only the trafficking of its citizens into cyber scam centres abroad. It is also at risk of becoming a hub for the international networks running the fraud.

That warning emerges from a regional report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, or UNODC, released in Dhaka last Wednesday in partnership with the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The report, titled "Trafficked to Scam: South Asian Responses to Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Forced Criminality in Scam Operations", examines the situation in five South Asian countries, including Bangladesh.

It was published under the European Union-funded project "Preventing and Addressing Trafficking in Human Beings and Smuggling of M...