Investigation of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital's (SMCH) case was handed over to Detective Branch (DB) of police from Gulshan police station on Tuesday night.
The Media Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Nadia Farzana confirmed the matter to Dhaka Tribune.
She said that the coronavirus testing and treatment scam case against SMCH Managing Director (MD) Faisal Al Islam, and two other accused – who are all currently in remand – have been handed over to DB police of Gulshan Division.
A Dhaka court has granted five days to interrogate Faisal and the two employees after a seven day remand petition from Gulshan police station.
The two other accused are Dr Md Abul Hasnat, assistant director of SMCH, and Shahriz Kabir Shadik, the hospital's inventory officer.
Earlier on Sunday, RAB raided SMCH in Dhaka’s Gulshan over a series of irregularities, including conducting of Covid-19 tests without approval and scamming patients with the wrong treatment, while Hasnat and Shahriz were held.
Then a case was filed against them, and four to five unidentified people, by RAB at Gulshan police station on Monday.
The hospital's licence was not renewed after June 2019.
During the raid, a RAB mobile court seized unauthorized drugs from the hospital's pharmacy and fined them Tk2 lakh.
On June 24, a person who had tested Covid-19 positive at SMCH was found negative for the disease by United Hospital.
SMCH had charged the patient with a bill of Tk139,000, calculating the cost of a single service several times.
RAB officials said SMCH had been treating Covid-19-negative people as Covid-19 patients, and generating a massive amount of bills. The hospital had also been charging excessive money from the patients.
At least 14 Covid-19 patients were receiving treatment at the private hospital and it charged them extra, besides making claims to the patients that they had conducted some tests multiple times without actually carrying out those tests, according to RAB.
Besides, the hospital was giving antibody tests without approval from the health authorities, and a fake Covid-19 test report was issued for money.