A Bangladesh hospital owner accused of issuing thousands of fake negative coronavirus tests at his two clinics has been arrested.
A Bangladesh hospital owner accused of issuing thousands of fake negative coronavirus test results to patients at his two clinics was arrested Wednesday while trying to flee to India in a burqa, police said.
"He was arrested from the bank of a border river as he was trying to flee to India. He was wearing a burqa," Rapid Action Battalion spokesman Colonel Ashique Billah told AFP. The alleged scams could badly hurt migrant workers seeking to go abroad and whose remittances are key to Bangladesh's economy, said Shakirul Islam of migrant rights group OKUP.
Nearly $19 billion was sent back to Bangladesh by an estimated 12 million migrant workers last year, according to the central bank.But medical experts say the real figures are likely much higher because so little testing has been carried out.
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