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A Dhaka court on Thursday granted interim bail to former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services Abul Kalam Azad in the Regent Hospital scam case.
Dhaka metropolitan sessions Judge KM Imrul Kayes granted the relief to Azad till November 2 on a bond of Tk 20,000 after he surrendered in the court yesterday morning.
On Sep 20, the Anti-Corruption Commission approved a chargesheet against six people, including Azad, in the corruption case.
He was not initially named in the chargesheet but was included later after an investigation, ACC Public Relations Officer Md Arif Sadeq told UNB.
ACC Deputy Director Farid Ahmed Patwary lodged the complaint against five people at Dhaka Coordinated Office-1 in September last year for embezzling Tk 1.37 crore by issuing fake Covid certificates from Regent Hospital.
The other accused are Regent Group Chairman Shaheduzzan, former DGHS Director Aminul Hasan, Deputy Director Yunus Ali, Assistant Director Shafiur Rahman, and Research Officer Didarul Islam.
Last year, numerous cases of mismanagement and irregularities in the health sector got exposed when physicians of some government hospitals complained of receiving low-quality masks and protective equipment.
