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‘BoomBoom.com’, the country’s another e-commerce company, has disappeared into thin air for six months with the deposits of more than 800 customers.
Police say the company’s Chief Executive Officer Fazle Rabbi Bhuiyan is a fugitive abroad, who has lured people through 30 to 40 per cent discount offer on motorbike, air conditioner, fridge and mobile phone.
Police and customers say this e-commerce company embezzled the deposits of more than 800 people.
Now an investigation is on to unearth the issue money embezzlement, including money laundering.
A group of friends and families headed by Sandipan Biswas deposited a total of Tk47,41,524 for 32 orders in the boomboom.com bank account between June and September 2021.
The e-commerce company offered a 40 per cent discount and committed delivery within 26 to 45 days on several occasions.
“I ordered four Bajaj Pulser 150 double-disc motorbikes for an attractive 40 per cent discount offer. After 2 to 3-month-long delay we communicated with the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. But they were trying to buy time and finally refused to deliver and even threatened us,” Sandipan Biswas told The Business Post.
Sandipan Biswas, a businessman from Mohammadpur, filed a case with Bannai Police Station on 17 April 2022.
The accused are BoomBoom Shopping’s Managing Director Habibul Islam Chowdhury, his wife and company Chairman Ayesha Habib, CEO Fazle Rabbi Bhuiyan and his wife Mossammed Urmi and Marium Begum. Now the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is investigating it.
Sandipan Biswas said aggrieved customers gathered at the controversial e-commerce platform’s
Banani office where they expressed their resentment on November 2021 afther which the management shuttered its office.
After the case was filed the company’s Managing Director gave us a bank cheque of Tk47,41,524 but it was bounched as the account holder had non-sufficient fund in its account.
BoomBoom customers say while Dhaka based several e-commerce companies, including Evaly and e-orange’s scams came to surface, BoomBoom deactivated its online platform.
Sohel Reza, another customer of BoomBoom Shopping, said he ordered five products and paid for them. In October 2021 the company refunded him the same amount through a bank cheque but it was bounced.
BoomBoom Shopping customers say the company’s CEO had already left the country for United Arab Emirates (UAE) escaping the eyes of the immigration police.
After the case was filed the company refunded a few customers’ deposits. They are hoping to get back their hard-earned money through legal action.
BoomBoom Shopping embezzled a huge amount of money from customers with attractive discount offer on valuable products, Khalidul Haque Hawlader, Special Superintendent (Dhaka Metro) of CID told The Business Post.
“One of the accused left the country and four others are still holed up in the country. We are trying to detain them,” he said.
He said customers who deposited their money in the BoomBoom.com and were unable to get their money back can communicate with the nearest police station.