Dhaka, April 12 -- The BNP government is "sincere" about dismantling the labour recruitment "syndicates" to ensure low-cost manpower export to Malaysia, Mahdi Amin, the prime minister's advisor on overseas employment, has said.

Speaking at the Secretariat on his recent visit to Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, Mahdi emphasised the administration's commitment to a transparent migration process.

"In the last few decades, we are the first to explicitly state that we want to break the syndicate," Amin said in response to queries about whether the Malaysian government had been formally requested to intervene.

"We want our people to go at a low cost through a transparent process. We have urged Malaysia to take all necessary steps to make this process...