Mohammed Shahed, a member of the country's governing party, was arrested after a nine-day manhunt on Wednesday.
The owner of two hospitals in Bangladesh that issued thousands of fake coronavirus test results has been arrested as he attempted to flee the country, officials have said.
Mohammed Shahed, a member of the country's governing party who regularly appeared on TV talk shows, was arrested on Wednesday by the police's elite Rapid Action Battalion after a nine-day manhunt. Shahed, who is chairman of the Regent Group and owner of two Regent hospitals in the capital Dhaka, was caught near the Indian border.
Abdul Baten, a commissioner of the detective branch in Dhaka, said Shahed admitted after his arrest that his hospitals did not have proper equipment to conduct
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