HBM Iqbal is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur and the founder chairperson of Premier Group of Companies Ltd.
[1] Iqbal was elected as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate representing the Dhaka-10 constituency in June 1996 and served as the Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee at the Ministry of Science and Technology.
[14][15] In April 2010, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), the public agency for urban development in Dhaka, sent a demolition notice to Momtaz Begum, the wife of Iqbal, for illegally building, Premier Square, a skyscraper in Gulshan area.
[16] In February 2021, Iqbal sent more than 30 legal notices to bdnews24.com to remove past articles on criminal cases against him.
[17] Online articles regarding Iqbal's cases published by The Daily Star now shows the error "You are not authorized to access this page".