Court: Freeze 58 bank accounts of Regent chairman and MD

A Dhaka court has ordered concerned authorities to freeze 58 bank accounts of Regent Group

Chairman Md Shahed and Managing Director Masud Parvez over a money laundering case.

Dhaka Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes passed the order following a petition filed by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday.

Md Moniruzzaman, investigation officer (IO) of the case filed the petition before the court seeking its order to freeze the bank accounts of the two accused.


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Shahed and Masud have 43 and 15 bank accounts, respectively in different banks of the capital where they deposited over Tk11 crore.

On July 15, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Regent Hospital Chairman Shahed for his alleged involvement in providing fake Covid-19 certificates and embezzling money from patients.

He was arrested from the border area of Debhata in Satkhira.