A customer has filed a fraud case against Evaly CEO Md Rassel and his wife Shamima Nasrin, chairman of the e-commerce platform at Gulshan police station on Thursday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Gulshan Division Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC), Md Asaduzzaman confirmed the matter.
He said, a resident of Purbagram area of Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj, Arif Baker filed the case where Rassel was named as prime accused and his wife Shamima as the number two.
Several other anonymous officials of Evaly have also been accused in the case, he added.
The plaintiff mentioned in the statement of the case that he had ordered goods worth Tk 3,10,597 on Evaly's online platform but did not get them within the stipulated time. So, being helpless he complained of embezzlement.
Earlier on July 17, a Dhaka court barred Evaly’s MD Mohammad Rassel and his wife Shamima Nasrin, the company’s chairman, from travelling abroad amid an ongoing investigation into embezzlement charges against them.
The ACC officials on July 8 sent a letter to the Special Branch of police to ask immigration police to impose a travel ban against Rassel and Shamima over alleged embezzlement of Tk 338 crore.
Evaly offices remain closed since the ACC began investigation into the charges. Customers claimed no one was answering the hotlines.
The commission on July 8 formed a two-member probe panel after receiving a Bangladesh Bank report, which says Evaly accepted Tk 214 crore in advance payment from customers and owed the merchants an additional Tk 190 crore. This totalled Tk 404 crore to be in Evaly’s possession, but this non-investing e-commerce company has only Tk 65.18 crore in assets.
The central bank also expressed concern about the amount of Evaly’s liability to customers and merchants is likely to be higher as the company authorities did not allow the inspection team access their replica database.
