The Detective Branch of Police on Wednesday submitted the charge-sheet against JKG Healthcare’s chairman Dr Sabrina Sharmin Hussain and seven others in a case filed over issuing forged Covid-19 certificates.

Liakat Ali, investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

The other accused in the case are JKG Healthcare’s CEO and Dr Sabrina’s husband Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Arif’s sister Jebunnesa Rima, his accomplices Sayed Chowdhury, Humayun Kabir and his wife Tanzila Patwari and Shafiqul Islam, Biplob Das and Mamunur Rashid. All of the accused were arrested.    

According to the charge-sheet, JKG Healthcare has provided 27,000 coronavirus test reports without following proper test procedures while most of them were found false.

The case was filed against six people, including Ariful Haque Chowdhury, over making false Covid-19 test reports.

On June 23, police arrested six people, including Dr Sabrina’s husband Ariful, Humayun Kabir and his wife Tanjina Patwari, from JKG Healthcare office at the Confidence Tower, Gulshan in connection with the case.

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