Regent Group owner Mohammad Shahed Karim has been arrested again in Dhaka. Police from Cantonment Police Station detained him on Monday afternoon at the ECB Chattar area in connection with a case filed at Pallabi Police Station.

Earlier, on 21 August 2023, a Dhaka court sentenced Shahed Karim to three years in prison in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over illegal wealth acquisition. The verdict was delivered by Judge Pradip Kumar Roy of Dhaka Special Judge Court-7.

In July 2020, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided the Uttara and Mirpur branches of Regent Hospital, uncovering fake COVID-19 test reports and financial irregularities. Following the raids, Shahed fled but was later arrested by RAB on 15 July from a border area in Satkhira.