The men feel exploited, claiming they paid between $50,000 and $70,000 to Indian agents for the jobs but were made redundant just months into a three-year contract.

Adding insult to their predicament, Newshub has obtained video of one of the men's managers who swears and laughs at them...

Dark because their jobs, which they paid thousands to Indian agents to secure, have suddenly evaporated...

One told Newshub he paid $70,000 to come to New Zealand for his job, while another said he paid approximately $56,000.

It was for work as security officers at Auckland-based company, S.E.A.L Security...

"I don't have enough money to spend on food, to get some food and groceries and pay the rent as well," one said...

Employment contracts state pay was $27.76 an hour, but they all say they got less than this. And it was supposed to be long-term work. One migrant said it was a three-year contract, but they only worked for nine months.

Three days before Christmas, 20 workers received a redundancy letter from company director Chetan Kumar saying "there is no work that I am able to offer you given all the work hours that we have lost"...

Through his lawyer, Kumar denied underpaying the men and denied any knowledge of vast sums of money being paid to agents in India.

He said deductions were made to workers' pay, but this was for rent, immigration and lawyer fees and for their uniforms. He claimed this was agreed to verbally with the men. The workers deny this...

He sent Newshub an email on Sunday from a former worker who stated the claims by the men were all part of an effort to extort money from the company.

However, Newshub contacted the former worker who wrote the email. He said he felt scared and was pressured to write the email and was paid $7000 by  S.E.A.L Security to do it..