The High Court Monday denied bail to Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed in a case filed over the laundering of around Tk11.2 crore. The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Sardar Md Rashed Jahangir passed the order, considering that the petition was not submitted properly before it. Advocate Fazlur Rahman stood for the petitioner while Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan represented the Anti-Corruption Commission. On August 25 last year, the Criminal Investigation Department of police filed the case against Shahed and Regent Group Managing Director Masud Parvez with Uttara West Police Station. Read: Regent Group Chairman Shahed put on 4-day remand Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) raided the Uttara and Mirpur branches of Regent Hospital on July 6 and arrested eight people on charges of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and charging exorbitant fees for Covid testing and treatment of inpatients. On July 7, the head office of the Regent Group and both the hospitals were sealed off and 17 people, including Shahed, were sued on charges of issuing fake Covid test reports and taking money from Covid patients for tests and treatment. On July 15, Rab arrested Shahed from the border area of Satkhira's Debhata as he tried to cross into India. Pervez was arrested from Gazipur on July 14. Shahed has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in an arms case.

A Chattogram court on Sunday placed Chairman of Regent Group Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim on a  four-day remand in a case filed over embezzling Tk91 lakh.

Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed Karim claimed himself completely innocent while giving his self-defence statement at a court on Wednesday in a case filed for keeping illegal arms.

Police on Wednesday submitted chargesheets against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed Karim in two separate cased filed for keeping illegal arms and foreign currency.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze 58 bank accounts of Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed and its Managing Director Masud Parvez in a money laundering case.

A Dhaka court here on Thursday framed charges against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed Karim in an arms case.

BNP on Saturday alleged that it is Awami League, not BNP, which has planted the 'venom tree of corruption’ in Bangladesh and produced fraudster like Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed and over 50 casinos in the capital.

A tribunal in Dhaka on Wednesday took the charges against Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed Karim into cognizance and fixed August 27 for hearing on charge framing in an arms case.

An arms case filed against Regent Group Chairman Shahed Karim was transferred to Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court on Thursday. 

The government on Sunday cancelled the accreditation card of Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed alias Shahed Karim, who was arrested and put on 10-day remand on charge of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.   “The accreditation card of Md Shahed has been cancelled as he was arrested in a case,” Information Department’s Chief Information Officer Surath Kumar Sarkar told UNB.   Shahed took a declaration of a daily newspaper named ‘Doinik Natun Kagoj’ and managed an accreditation card showing his newspaper, he said.   “If the law enforcers arrest anyone, his/her accreditation card will be cancelled,” he said adding that Shahed’s authorisation card was cancelled as he has been arrested in a case.   Earlier on Wednesday, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Shahed from Shakhra Komorpur border in Debhata upazila of Satkhira on charge of issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and brought to Dhaka by helicopter.   A case was filed against him on July 14 on charge of embezzling more than Tk 91 lakh from a transport exporter in Chattogram.   On July 16, a court placed Shahed and Regent Group’s managing director Masud Parvez on a 10-day remand each in a case over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.   The Regent Group head office along with both the hospitals were sealed off and 16 people, including the chairman, were sued on charge of issuing fake coronavirus test reports.