Awami League MP, Engineer Enamul Hauqe claimed that he did not own either an apartment or a house, despite being the de facto owner of the Ena Group, which has 10 sister concerns including a real estate company that has finished at least 31 multi-storeyed housing projects and is implementing another 17 projects in Dhaka and overseas.
Enamul’s wife Tahura Haque, the only second shareholder-director of the group, too has no house or apartment, the couple declared in the affidavit placed at the Election Commission for the 10th parliamentary polls.
The Haque family’s annual income was Tk50 lakh, coming from agriculture, real estate business, house rent and service, according to the affidavit.
According to the wealth statement in the affidavit, the MP and his wife have movable and immovable wealth worth around Tk16 crore 30 lakh.
The group’s official website, however, lists Enamul Haque and his wife Tahura Haque as the two share-holder directors of Ena Group that has four members in the board, including the couple.
Meanwhile, the Ena Property has housing projects in Dhaka’s posh areas, where even the medium-sized apartments are reportedly worth taka one crore a piece. The company also advertised of having fascinating projects for the rich buyers in Dhaka.
The officials of the National Board of Revenue, however, said submitting false or partial wealth information was a punishable offence.
Enamul Haque came under media spotlight as the city development authority awarded him the contract for the construction of apartments in Uttara for the middle income people, violating the rule that an existing MP cannot do business with the government for conflict of interests.
According to the affidavit, Enamul Haque has agricultural land worth Tk1 crore 54 lakh while his wife owns similar type of land valued at only Tk1.5 lakh. The value of the couple’s non-agricultural land stands at Tk5.5 lakh. They own buildings worth Tk67 lakh.
They have Tk 15 lakh cash in hand while their bank deposit stands at over Tk 10 lakh.
Tahura Haque has almost double shares of the companies listed or unlisted with the capital market. She has shares worth over Tk8 crore and 2 lakh while her husband owns shares of over Tk4 crore 86 lakh.
The Ena Group concerns other than the Ena Properties are, Ena Global, a company dedicated to building houses overseas, Northern Power, Ena Building Products Limited, Ena Tex (a company to make wooden products), Saleha Emarat Cold Storage Limited, Saleha Emarat Agricultural Industries Limited, Saleha Emarat Foundation and Ena Dongah.
Amader Rajshahi, another sister concern, is a Bangla newspaper based in northern divisional city of Rashahi.
Enamul Haque has been re-elected MP of the Rajshahi-5 constituency unopposed.