Three non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) businessmen – M Mahtabur Rahman, M Oliur Rahman and M Emadur Rahman – from the same family and same company, Al Haramain Group of Companies, have been awarded the UAE Gold Visa. M Oliur Rahman, vice-chairman of Al Haramain Group, and M Emadur Rahman, deputy managing director of Al Haramain Group, received the UAE Gold Visa on August 6 while M Mahtabur Rahman, chairman of Al Haramain Group, was awarded the UAE Gold Visa on June 17, a press statement said.

With this, five Bangladeshi expatriates have so far been awarded Gold Visa, the other two - Mahbubul Alam Manik, a Dubai-based industrialist, and Akhter Hossain, a Ras Al Khaimah-based businessman with interests in real estate and retail activities. Bangladeshi nationals own more than 50,000 businesses in the UAE and employ more than 150,000 people – making them one of the largest business communities in the UAE.

Mahtabur Rahman and Oliur Rahman are brothers while Emadur Rahman is the son of Mahtabur Rahman – all run separate group companies while all of them are working closely in the group’s holding company as business leaders. Each of them has been awarded Gold Visa separately for their own investment and business leadership, the statement added.