I suspect that there was some level of intelligence agencies involvement, using it as a front as well as another illegal money machine to fund their off the books programs. I am not a fan of the fact that so many foreigners (2900) are being arrested. Seems from your reporting they did not know they had been duped, and the fact they were let in the country and able to work and such would have aided in that perception it was on the up and up. Seems to me that they would be treated as victims, since that was what many of them likely are.