DHAKA: Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have conducted a drive with Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed, who is on a 10-day remand in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 test certificates.

The raid was conducted in Uttara area of the capital on Saturday night.

Law enforcers recovered five bottles of foreign alcohol, 10 bottles of phensedyl, a pistol and one round of bullet from Shahed’s car during the drive based on information provided by Shahed.

The arms and drugs were recovered from a white car parked in front of a house in Uttara sector-11, according to DB sources. 

Confirming the matter, Tapan Chandra Saha, officer-in-charge (OC) of Uttara west police station, said two cases were filed with the station against Shahed under the Arms and Narcotics Control.

Meanwhile, a Dhaka court on Thursday morning (July 16) placed Regent Group Chairman Shahed Karim and its managing director Masud Parvez on ten-day remand each in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and charging patients for treatment.

On July 15, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested Md Shahed along with an illegal firearm in a border area of Satkhira while he was trying to cross the border by a boat.

Md Shahed was on the run after a case was filed against him on July 7 for issuing fake Covid-19 test reports in his Regent Hospital.

Earlier, RAB members raided Mirpur and Uttara branches of Regent Hospital on July 6 on charges of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and charging patients excessive fees.

Regent Hospital collected samples from at least 10,000 people. Some 6,000 of them got fake Covid-19 test reports, according to an RAB intelligence report.

On July 7, RAB sealed off Regent Hospital's head office in the capital, and two of the hospital's branches in Uttara and Mirpur, on charges of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and other misdeeds.

A case was filed against 17 persons, including Regent Group Chairman Shahed, for their alleged involvement in issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and other misdeeds.

BDST: 1402 HRS, JULY 19, 2020
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