Investigators seek out more proof Shahed's fraudulence
Regent Group chairman Mohammad Shahed Karim was found to have kept mark of his evil skills in education and many other sectors apart from health as he was now being quizzed in remand mostly on charges of issuing fake Covid-19 test reports in exchange of money, police said on Saturday.
"Anyone will be amused of his skills as far as fraudulence can be involved," said an investigator acquainted with his interrogation in police custody on a court order.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) detective branch additional commissioner Abdul Baten, meanwhile, told a media briefing that the investigators dug out evidence which showed it had been not medical sector alone, Shahed kept mark of his corruption skills in several arena including education sector.
But, he said, lately Shahed cheated persons opening multiple fake company in the facebook while supplied PPEs, masks and body-carrying bags beneath the one such so-called enterprises called Albert Global Garments Factory as COVID-19 pandemic gripped the united states.
Baten said Shahed supplied about 50,000 "extremely sub-standard" personal protection equipment (PPEs), one lakh masks and 20,000 body-carrying bags in the name of Albert Global Garments, which "happens to be a non-existent entity."
He said the medical protective gears provided by Shahed eventually endangered the users life and "we will share our findings dragged out through the investigation to medical ministry and departments concerned aswell".
The principle DMP detective said a protracted remand period of another major character in medical scam over COVID-19 private JKG HEALTHCARE Chairman and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases' (NICVD) suspended doctor Sabrina Adoctor Arif Chowdhury was set to expire tomorrow when the authorities would brief the media outcome of the development involving her.
But he briefly said Sabria admitted her involvement in cheating people by capitalizing her "face value and identity".
Sabrina was arrested on July 12 regarding the a case filed with Tejgaon Police Station on June 24.
Shahed in now on 10-day police remand after his dramatic arrest by elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on July 15 plus a firearm plus some bullets as he was visibly trying to flee justice fleeing the country Debhata Upazila of Satkhira by crossing a river.
Authorities by now filed over 50 cases, mostly related to fraudulence.
