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Calgary doctor denied bail by judge for alleged child abduction for two years
Muhammad Zia-Ur Rahman allegedly planned a two-year international flight with forged documents and $560,000 transferred overseas, Crown says he poses a flight risk.
- On Jan. 17, Muhammad Zia-Ur Rahman was returned to Calgary after being captured last month in Mauritius and was denied bail on a parental abduction charge.
- Prosecutors say the abduction was meticulously planned, with Rahman forging documents, transferring more than $560,000 overseas, buying property, and fleeing amid a $1.6 million reassessment from Alberta Health.
- Travel records suggest the pair moved through Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Vanuatu, Rahman held passports from four countries and citizenship in three others, and transferred nearly $900,000 overseas before leaving Canada.
- Justice Peter Barley ruled that the Crown met its onus on all three Criminal Code grounds to deny release, and the matter will return to court next week with a Feb. 2 appearance.
- Police say the boy, now seven, was reunited with his mother just before Christmas but was "completely alienated," while Rahman is not in current practice and the CPSA hearing appears postponed.
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