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MYANMAR – The junta council issued a directive, ordering all Myanmar citizens working abroad to send back 25% of their monthly salaries via the junta regime’s banks, threatening to ban those who don’t comply from working overseas for three years and to block them from renewing their passports.
The directive was issued after junta leader and terrorist war criminal Min Aung Hlaing said at the junta council meeting on August 18, 2022 that there were millions of Myanmar people working abroad and ordered that their income must flow back to Myanmar.
The directive will come into action starting September 1 and it was mentioned that those who don’t comply with the junta council’s orders will be banned from working overseas for three years.
“Family members of those working abroad are required to open bank accounts at the private banks in Myanmar. Then the person working abroad has to transfer 25% of their salary to that account either monthly or every three month. Those who don’t do so will not be allowed to have their passports renewed overseas and if they returned to Myanmar, they will be banned from working overseas for three years, according to the notice from (junta) Ministry of Labour,” said an official of a Yangon based agency sending workers to Japan.
“This is such a blatant attempt to get their hands on foreign currency. Definitely no one will send back. Entire families will move away (overseas), for sure. This is all infuriating, asking for 25% like some mistresses,” said a youth.
Meanwhile, the National Unity Government (NUG) Ministry of Labour issued an announcement that the Myanmar nationals working abroad need not heed the junta council’s orders.
NUG announced on September 8 that any agency or person pressuring to send back the money by cutting off from the wages of Myanmar workers abroad or other methods will be facing serious action.