Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of JKG Health Care Shafikul Islam on Sunday gave confessional statement before a Dhaka court in a case lodged over issuing fake coronavirus test reports.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan recorded his statement under section 164 as the Investigation Officer (IO) and Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Liyakat Ali produced him before the court, a day after his two-day remand had ended, and pleaded to record his statement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam on July 22 remanded him in the case.
JKG Healthcare run by Ariful Haque Chowdhury and his wife Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, was realizing money from the suspected patients for Covid-19 tests, whereas the company had inked a deal with the government to conduct them free of cost.
The fraud company was even faking the signatures and seals of government agencies in making forged coronavirus test reports while throwing away the samples taken from suspected patients.
A victim named Kamal Hossain lodged the case against them last month with the Tejgaon police station.
Apart from Shafikul Islam, Ariful and Sabrina, Jebun Nesa Rima, Biplob Das, Mamunur Rashid, Humayun Kabir Himu, Tanjila Patwari and Sadi Chowdhury are now behind bars in the case.
On June 24, police arrested Ariful and four others for their alleged involvement in a Covid-19 testing scam.
They have brought charges against JKG Healthcare of providing false reports without testing the swabs collected from the people for testing.
