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ACC team to probe allegations against Shahed

Launches separate investigation against Dr Sabrina


FE REPORT | July 14, 2020 00:00:00


The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday formed a team to investigate allegations of graft, forgery and fraudulence against owner of Regent Hospital Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim.

However, Shahed is on the run since allegations emerged against his hospital of selling fake Covid-19 certificates and irregularities in treating Covid-19 patients.

The government also sealed the two hospitals owned by Mr Karim, also the chairman of Regent Group, located at the city's Uttara and Mirpur, after drives by rapid action battalion (RAB) following complaints from Covid-19 patients and their family members.

The enquiry team is led by ACC Deputy Director Abu Bakar Siddique while other two members are assistant directors Neyamul Hasan Gazi and Sheikh Md Golam Mawla, said ACC spokesman Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.

There are plenty of allegations against the businessman including - misappropriating people's money collected through MLM (multi level marketing) business, amassing government funds through forgery and fraudulence, dodging income tax, embezzling loans taken from banks using fake name and identity, and amassing illegal wealth etc.

The commission also launched a separate investigation against JKG Health Care chairman Dr Sabrina Chowdhury for her involvement in amassing Tk 80 million by selling fake Covid-19 reports.

She was arrested on Sunday while her husband Ariful Haque Chowdhury was detained by the law enforcement agency a week ago.

Sabrina and her husband, CEO of JKG Health Care, sold a total of 15,460 fake medical reports without testing samples of suspected Covid-19 patients.

Sabrina, a cardiac surgeon at the National Heart Disease Institute, also violated conditions of government employment being chairman of a private organisation.

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