“We are contacting them,” said Zahirul Islam, the high commission’s labour councillor, when contacted by FMT.

Earlier today, a TikTok video clip showing the workers’ poor living conditions was posted by former Klang MP Charles Santiago on Twitter.

The foreign nationals were seen crammed into several small bedrooms of the apartment.

Santiago’s caption claimed that the workers had paid RM20,000 in recruitment fees in their home country, only to find out that there were no jobs for them upon arrival in Malaysia.

Meanwhile, the person who recorded the video told FMT that all the workers were brought into the country a month ago.

They were not provided with good food or water. They also had to share a single toilet in that apartment, adding that their living conditions “are dangerous”.

For the time being, FMT is withholding the name of the recruitment agency responsible for bringing them in pending comments.

FMT has also reached out to labour department director-general Asri Rahman and human resources minister V Sivakumar for comments.

There have been several cases of Bangladeshi workers left stranded in Malaysia without any jobs after they were brought into the country.

Last week, FMT reported that 35 Bangladeshi workers, who have been in the country since December, were not given jobs as promised by the recruitment agents.

On March 13, FMT reported that a group of 10 Bangladeshi workers were detained by the immigration department in Penang for not possessing valid documents after their purported employer failed to provide them with jobs after their arrival in Malaysia last December.