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[email protected] espite official statements that usually reject and condemn the crime of human trafficking and Dexploitation of poor people for money by bring- ing them from their countries under false work contracts, this devastating offense still occurs. Recently, it ended with the death of a poor Egyptian man. He came to work in Kuwait to start a new life, but ended it here. The worker threw himself from the tenth floor trying to escape from security men who surrounded the resi- dence where he lived with a number of workers in Ahmadi governorate, after a complaint was filed against them by the manager of the company that brought them to Kuwait. His death revealed all secrets! Investigations disclosed that the officials of the com- pany involved in trade and contracting took up to $5,000 to bring Arab expatriates to Kuwait and left them without actual work. Later, the workers found themselves in a big problem, after they had paid this large sum of money to get a job. Some of them had sold everything they owned.