Amassing illegal wealth Regent’s chairman Shahed jailed for 3 yrs

Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka yesterday sentenced Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim to three years in the prison in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for amassing illegal wealth.

Judge Prodip Kumar Roy of the Special Judge Court-7 of Dhaka passed the order of Monday.

The court also fined him Tk one lakh.

The anti-graft body on March 1 of 2021, filed the case on the charge of amassing illegal wealth of Taka 1.69 crore.

The court framed charges against the sole accused on April 17 of last year, and initiated the trial.

The court recorded the depositions of 10 witnesses in the case on different dates.

On September 28, 2020, Shahed was sentenced to life-term imprisonment in an arms case.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on July 6 of 2020 raided two hospitals of Regent Group in Uttara and Mirpur areas and arrested eight people for issuing fake corona test results and certificates by using forged serial numbers and signatures of concerned authorities, realizing illegal fees from the patients.

They were running hospital business without having any proper approval, was one of the other charges.

RAB, on the next day, filed a case against 17 including Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed under sections 406/417/465/468/471/ and 269 of the Penal Code with Uttara West Police Station in the capital.

Shahed was arrested on July 15, 2020 from Satkhira.

The arms case was filed against him by RAB after they conducted a raid in Shahed’s Uttara office and recovered illegal fire arms.