In 2016, the Wildlife Justice Commission and the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia conducted an investigation into the illegal trade in tiger parts in Malaysia. Investigators found an apartment in Kuala Lumpur occupied by eight Vietnamese men and seized a number of tiger skins and bear claws. Later, officials found that the Vietnamese men had been trafficked to Malaysia to collect agarwood in the Malaysian forests, where the group also opportunistically poached tigers and collected wildlife products to earn money. The men’s passports had been withheld from them by their traffickers, to be returned only once they had earned enough money to cover their expenses. Further investigations revealed that the same syndicate responsible for trafficking these men had also recruited Vietnamese women to work in the sex industry in Malaysia, where they were similarly dispossessed of their passports and made to work until they had covered the costs of their transportation and housing.