Mohammad Shahed, the chairman of Regent Hospital, travelled to different districts and changed location frequently to avoid arrest on charges of fraud, including those involving a COVID-19 test scam, according to the RAB.
Published : 16 Jul 2020, 04:01 AM
Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, the director general of RAB, said Shahed hid in Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar, Cumilla and Satkhira over the past week.
The Regent Group boss told the RAB that he had travelled by foot, truck, or car during the period.
One of the top RAB officials who took part in the operation, said Shahed left Dhaka in the night of Jul 7 and took shelter at an employee’s home in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi. He knew he would be arrested after the RAB raided and sealed off the hospital’s branches and headquarters.
Shahed moved to Cumilla from Moheshkhali by renting a car and then he crossed Dhaka into Manikganj by a truck of a big firm. On Jul 11, the alleged fraudster travelled to Satkhira, his native district.
The RAB personnel caught him with a loaded pistol in him. He had shaved off his moustache, darkened his hair and wore a burqa for disguise.
Shahed could not sleep much in Satkhira because his relatives refused him shelter, RAB Intelligence chief Sarwar Bin Quasem said.
Shahed requested RAB personnel not to produce him before the media after the arrest, an official said.
“Shahed was embarrassed when he saw a journalist known to him clicking his photos at the Tejgaon airport,” an official said.
The Regent Group chairman appeared in TV talk-shows in recent years and discussed ethics among other things.