Staff Reporter :
The elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three personnel including Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sirajul Islam Rana of e-commerce site ‘Dhamaka Shopping’ on charge of embezzling customers’ money. Assistant Superintendent of Police and RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Assistant Director A N M Imran Khan confirmed the matter on Wednesday morning.
He said, the elite force members arrested them in cases filed by their customers with Tongi West Police Station. On Wednesday noon, in a press briefing, RAB said, “The e-commerce company has so far conducted business transactions worth Tk750 crore through the account of Invariant Telecom Bangladesh Limited, a software development company based in city.”
The detainees further told the RAB that Dhamaka Shopping used to follow the “Inventory Zero Model” and “Hold money Process Plan” as their business strategy. Besides, Dhamaka Shopping is not authorised and has no licence to run e-commerce business, its detained officials told the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in primary interrogation.
The detainees are COO Sirajul Islam Rana, and Category Heads Imtiaz Hasan Shobuj and Ibrahim Shwapon. Law enforcers nabbed them in separate drives in the capital’s Tejgaon and Chattogram.
Earlier on 23 September, a customer filed the case against 11 officials including the chairman, managing director and chief operating officer of the e-commerce platform with Gazipur’s Tongi West police station.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been investigating money laundering allegations against Dhamaka Shopping since 30 June.
Later, CID filed a Tk116 crore money laundering case against the company.
Earlier on September 16, RAB detained e-commerce site ‘Evaly’ chairman Shamima Nasrin and her husband Managing Director Mohammad Rassel over embezzling money of their customers.
