Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Motiur Rahman Nizami shares ownership of money and assets with his wife but his deputy Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid has next to nothing in his life partner’s name.
Mojahid earns around Tk 4.60 lakh annually while Nizami earns around Tk 1.80 lakh, according to the two top-ranking Jamaat leaders’ wealth statements submitted to the Election Commission (EC).
Mojahid did not even give ownership of gold and other ornaments to his wife. However, he mentioned in his statement that those are actually his wife’s.
He mentioned in the category of movable properties that he, his wife and sons share Tk 1.51 lakh he kept in different banks and financial institutions.
He has four flats. “Process is underway to transfer the ownership of three flats to my three sons and I will share the other one with my only daughter,” he said in his disclosure of immovable assets. His wife does not own any flats.
As per the affidavit attached to his nomination paper, he has Tk 84,100 in cash and shares of two companies worth over Tk 5 lakh. He also owns electronics goods and furniture worth about Tk 3 lakh.
Apart from getting Tk 3 lakh as salary from the party, the Jamaat secretary general says that his two other sources of income are share dividends of Tk 3,512 and Tk 1.60 lakh he received as advance house rent from his tenants.
Mojahid, who identifies himself as a businessman, did not describe anything about his business. He claimed he spends Tk 3.75 lakh annually.
He says he may get donation of Tk 50,000 from Monowara Begum and Tk 4 lakh from Anwarul Haq Raju, neither of whom are his relatives. He will also get Tk 1.50 lakh from other sources.
Mojahid, who is running for the December 29 parliamentary elections in Faridpur-3 constituency, will spend Tk 50,000 from his own pocket while his sons, brothers and wife will provide him Tk 6.50 lakh for election expenditure.
In contrast, Nizami says that he has movable properties worth over Tk 47 lakh and his wife has more than Tk 7 lakh. They would have sahred movable properties worth almost equally had Nizami kept the three vehicles in his wife’s name. The Jamaat chief’s three vehicles are said to be worth Tk 40 lakh.
The couple have immovable properties in either of their names.
Nizami’s wife owns Tk 65,828 in cash against her husband’s Tk 28,716. She also has more money deposited in banks than her husband. Nizami has Tk 28,837 deposited in banks against his wife’s Tk 2.51 lakh.
Nizami says he would spend 1.5 lakh from his own pocket while the rest of his total election expenditure of Tk 14 lakh would come from the party, his family members and well-wishers. Nizami, who identifies himself as a writer, is contesting the polls from Pabna-1 constituency.
Both the Jamaat leaders are now facing three criminal cases each. Proceedings of the cases against Nizami were suspended while Mojahid is on bail in two cases and the proceeding of the other one was suspended.
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