A Dhaka court on Monday granted three-day police remand for JKG Health Care chairperson Sabrina Arif Chowdhury in a case filed over COVID-19 certificates forgery.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahinur Rahman passed the order, denying Sabrina bail after she was produced before the court by Tejgaon police, who sought four-day remand.

Sabrina, also a cardiac surgeon at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, was arrested by Tejgaon police station for interrogation in the forgery case on Sunday.

Later in the evening on Sunday she was suspended from her job by the health ministry for her involvement in the JKG that faked and sold COVID-19 certificates.

Her arrest came days after her husband Arif Chowdhury, JKG chief executive officer, and five other current and former employees of the NGO were arrested over counterfeiting COVID-19 certificates after the government under an agreement allowed it to collect COVID-19 samples amid the pandemic.

JKG Health Care received the permission to collect COVID-19 samples in April and it set up 44 booths in Dhaka and Narayanganj to collect samples from potential COVID-19 patients for free.

But their irregularities and forgery of COVID-19 test certificates were detected in late June during raids conducted by the Tejgaon police station.

The organisation was charging test seekers high rates for collecting samples from home and was forging COVID-19 test certificates.

The DGHS on June 24 revoked its permission to JKG for collecting COVID-19 samples.