In Brazil, police say, they have identified a gang specialising in trafficking Bangladeshi nationals into the country. About 80 workers have been lured by their own countrymen with promises of earning up to 1,500 dollars a month. But they ended up as slave labour in order to pay their smugglers nearly 10,000 dollars. South America's biggest economy has recently seen a steep rise in cases of illegal immigration. The smugglers explored routes across the borders of Peru, Bolivia and Guyana to enter Brazil. The workers were found living in slavery-like conditions in eight houses in the town of Samambaia near Brasilia.