The Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Tuesday allowed the police to take e-commerce firm Evaly’s chief executive officer Mohammad Rassel under their custody for interrogation for one more day in a case with Dhanmondi police station in Dhaka on charge of embezzlement and fraudulence.
Judge Hasibul Haque of the court passed the order responding to a police petition seeking the court’s permission to take him under police custody for seven days for interrogation in the case, court officials said.
The court also rejected the police plea seeking the court’s permission to take Rassel’s wife Shamima Nasrin, chairman of the company, under police custody for seven days for interrogation in the same case.
Rassel and Shamima were produced before the court on Tuesday afternoon on completion of three days’ interrogation in police custody in a case lodged with Gulshan police station earlier by a consumer of Evaly on charge of embezzlement and fraudulence.
On September 17, RAB arrested Evaly CEO Rassel and his wife Nasrin, from their Mohammadpur residence.
Rassel and Shamima were arrested after an aggrieved customer, Arif Baker, lodged a case with Gulshan police station accusing them and few other company executives of embezzlement and fraudulence.
A Dhaka court on Friday placed them on a three-day remand.
Besides, the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, an arm of the Bangladesh Bank that specialises in financial crime investigations, directed all the commercial banks and financial institutions through a common letter on August 27 to freeze all the bank accounts operated by top executives of Evaly.
The Directorate of National Consumer Right Protection, a department under the commerce ministry, received allegations from consumers about ‘cheating’ by Evaly.
Bangladesh Bank officials said one of the major allegations against Evaly is forcing its consumers to deposit their money in the e-wallet of the firm which was totally illegal.
