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Controversial e-commerce site Evaly Chairman Shamima Nasrin has been released from prison.
She walked out of Kashimpur Women’s Central Jail on Wednesday (6 April) evening, according to Kashimpur Jail Deputy Jailor Syed Shah Sharif.
“Evaly Chairman Shamima was released on Wednesday evening after her papers were scrutinised by jail authority. Her release order reached the jail on Tuesday," he said while confirming the matter to The Business Post.
She was sent to the Kashimpur prison on September 21, 2021.
On September 16, Evaly CEO Md Rassel and his wife Shamima Nasrin, chairman of the e-commerce platform, were arrested from their residence in the capital’s Mohammadpur. Earlier, members of the Rapid Action Battalion raided their home after a customer filed a fraud case against the duo at Gulshan police station.
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.
