The authorities in Bangladesh have arrested the owner of the hospital who is said to be selling thousands of certificates to migrant workers that show a negative result for a coronavirus infection test, while the test was not actually actually carried out.

The authorities said that they arrested the owner of the hospital last Wednesday while trying to escape across the border with India, as he was disguised as a woman.

The police said that when the man, who said that his name was Mohamed Shahid and had a great criminal record, was arrested, he was wearing a wig that covered him from his head to his feet.

Within two and a half weeks, investigators in Bangladesh collected the facts that occurred and said that the hospital owned by a witness in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, sold thousands of fake certificates confirming that they were free of corona virus, as the price per one reached 59 dollars, according to the authorities in Bangladesh.

There is a huge market for such certificates between migrant workers from Bangladesh and eager to return to work in Europe, where they do jobs such as working in groceries, restaurants, or selling water bottles on the streets.

Finally, many Bengal workers flew to Italy, where they said that the places they were working in required important certificates before being allowed to return to work.

While the police in Bangladesh began checking on a witness who had disappeared, according to the authorities, but after nine days of searching they were able to find him in the border area with India.

The minister in the Bangladesh government, Abdul Qadir, said that the widespread use of false testimonies of the Corona virus represented a "severe blow to the image of our country."

Bangladesh is considered one of the poorest countries in Asia. Several million Bengalis work outside the country and send billions of dollars to the country, which keeps the economy going.

During the Corona pandemic, many workers who returned to Bangladesh for a short break found themselves without work and were therefore anxious to return to work.

Minister Abdul Qadir said that there are many criminal organizations operating across Bangladesh, where migrant workers are lured with certificates confirming that they are free of the Coronavirus and, in turn, put the lives of many at risk.

 The authorities in Bangladesh said that the Regent Hospital, which is run by a witness, issued nearly 10,000 certificates, most of which were forged, and were not based on any testing of the Corona virus.

The police arrested two doctors on charges of selling thousands of fake Corona certificates from their Dhaka laboratory.

The authorities in Bangladesh said that special police agents were going after others who were working in the same field.

The situation of the Corona virus outbreak in Bangladesh is unclear, as this country with a population of about 160 million people has reported 200,000 infections.

But as the virus has spread across South Asia and due to lack of testing in Bangladesh, health experts believe that the country has significantly higher rates of infection than reported figures.

The Italian Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, ordered the prevention of all flights arriving from Bangladesh, after it became clear that about 37 Bengali travelers had arrived in Rome, and tests confirmed their infection with the Corona virus.

Last week, Italy returned 168 Bangladeshi travelers after they arrived at the Rome and Milan airports, according to the Italian Minister of Health.

Even before the fraudulent fraud was exposed, the Bengali police said that a witness had been investigated in about thirty other criminal cases related to corruption, embezzlement, and the management of fake companies.

He spent two years in prison, according to the authorities. "He is a well-known criminal, and we are working to pursue others," said one of the elite police in Bangladesh, the Rapid Intervention faction, Faizul Islam.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh published a statement on Thursday saying: "About 1,600 Bengali people who went to Italy recently did not bring with them false certificates of corona" but the statement added, "Some of the Bangladeshis who traveled to Italy during the last days did not follow the mandatory quarantine procedures, and perhaps a few of them spread the epidemic. In the society they were in. ”

Italian Justice Ministry spokeswoman Fiorenza Eni said she was unaware of any ongoing joint investigations between Italy and Bangladesh.

A spokesman for the Lazio region, which includes Rome, Giuseppe Mazara, said that about six thousand Corona virus tests were carried out on people who came to Italy from Bangladesh in June, in addition to people who were in contact with them.

So far, he added, there are 191 people infected with the virus. The Bangladeshi migrant worker, Taher Hussain, who works in the kitchen of a restaurant in Milan, said that the Italian newspapers are constantly talking about the rise in Corona virus infections in the Bengali society, which makes the ordinary workers suspects.

"People look at us with eyes of skepticism, as if we were infected with the virus," he added by phone from Milan.

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