There seems to be no end to controversies involving the e-commerce industry in Bangladesh even as latest reports suggest e-commerce platform Sirajganjshop has, reportedly, embezzled over Taka 47.43 crore from Nagad, which is a mobile financial service (MFS) of the Postal Department, in just two days through fraudulence even as according to a case statement in this regard, the e-commerce entity embezzled the money through lots of refund requests to different customer accounts from 30 to 31 August.
Media reports maintained this while adding Touhidul Islam Chowdhury, who is Nagad’s Senior Executive (Legal Wing), filed a case against owner of Sirajganjshop Jewel Rana, with the Banani Police Station on 13 September — according to the case statement, the e-commerce site embezzled the money through lots of refund requests to different customer accounts from 30 to 31 August— even as during the time, Nagad detected five unusual issues namely repeated refund requests of the same amount of money from the same account; abnormal number of refund requests at the same time; refund request sent against the purchase order for which the goods were already successfully delivered; request was made to return more money than the actual amount of the order and that the refund requests were made to return money late at night.
According to reports, Nagad had stopped transactions of several thousand accounts even as most of the money went to a few accounts in Sirajganjshop, which belong to Jewel Rana and his relative while Jewel Rana has, reportedly, been served with a show-cause notice after the fraudulent incident was revealed while at the same time, a refund request was also sent but subsequently on 2 September, Jewel Rana, reportedly, sent a letter and since then he allegedly could not be reached.
