A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed on an 8-day fresh remand in a money laundering case.
Magistrate Md Ziaur Rahman of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka passed the order after Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of Police, produced him in the court with a 10-day remand plea.
In the prayer, Inspector Moniruzzaman, who is also Investigation Officer of the case, said the accused amassed a big amount of money and laundered it through different channels. So, he has to be put on remand to get information as to where he
laundered the money, the IO added. On the other hand, defence counsels submitted a petition seeking bail with cancellation of the remand prayer.
After hearing both the submissions of sides, the court turned down the bail petition and granted the remand prayer.
On August 25, CID Inspector Mohamnad Ibrahim filed the case with Uttara East Police Station. According to the prosecution, Shahed embezzled about Tk 12 crore from 2017 to 2020. He also embezzled Tk 7.9 crore from different people and organisations from 2017 to the present year. Shahed also embezzled about Tk three crore through Covid-19 fake test in the last few months.
Shahed transacted the money with 43 bank accounts which he opened under the names of Regent Hospital, Regent KCS Limited and 12 other companies whose existences are yet to be proved.
Regent Group Managing Director Masud Parvez and six to seven other unnamed people were also made accused in the case.
Shahed was arrested on July 15 from Satkhira when he was trying to leave the country. Later Shahed was put on 61days’ remand in different cases filed with different police stations of the city.
