Customers are increasingly becoming disillusioned and frustrated following reports of large-scale anomalies and so-called fraudulences by certain e-commerce entities, which went for aggressive marketing and huge price cuts thereby resulting in a massive growth of the e-commerce sector in Bangladesh over the one-and-a-half-year period during the COVID-19 pandemic even as certain e-commerce entities have allegedly swindled customers of some Taka 3,500 crore already.
Media reports maintained this while adding large-scale money laundering and cases of cheating by e-commerce entities started coming to light in recent months after many customers complained that they did not get their products in months despite paying the prices in advance even as more than a dozen e-commerce firms faced allegations of embezzlement through fraudulent activities, while the owners and top officials of several big online platforms have already been arrested over financial scams.
Speaking to the media, CID Additional Deputy Inspector General Kamrul Ahsan, reportedly, stated that they were investigating at least 24 cases against e-commerce platforms, which include names such as Dhamaka, RingID, Evaly, E-orange, 24tkt.com, Sirajganj Shop, Qcoom, SPC World and Nirapad.com, while adding most of the firms primarily face cases related to money laundering, fraudulences and breach of the Digital Security Act even as Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Branch Additional Commissioner AKM Hafiz Akter, on his part, reportedly, underlined that around 12–15 more e-commerce platforms were under surveillance as there were allegations against them of defrauding thousands of customers.
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