News Desk :
A group of Dhaka University students who started small businesses through e-commerce platform aladinerprodip.com marched through the campus on Sunday to demand that the money they paid to the company be returned immediately as it failed to deliver the products, reports UNB.
The students said they made payments to the troubled e-commerce company on behalf of their customers for products which had not been delivered. The money got stuck up at the gateway after authorities froze the company’s accounts amid allegations of irregularities.
After the accounts affiliated with Aladiner Prodip were frozen in September this the students have been in uncertainty of getting back the money their customers have paid through this e-commerce platform.
“We stepped into this e-commerce platform to earn and support our family during lockdown inspired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Digital Bangladesh.”, Raon Sarkar, a-fourth-year student of Applied Mathematics Department, said.
Mushfiq Bipu, a student of World Religion and Culture Department, said their hope of becoming entrepreneurs have been dashed by as the accounts of Aladiner Prodip have been frozen.
“We are in a miserable situation,” he said.
The students at the protest demanded unfreezing their accounts and provide the payments so they can pay the merchants.
They also urged the authorities to release Aladin Prodip’s money from the gate way and take steps for a sustainable security policy on sound e-commerce business.
Aladiner Prodip like other e-commerce platforms such as evaly, e-orange, Alesha Mart, Dhamaka, Sirajganj Shop, Qcoom, BoomBoom, Adyan Mart and need.com.bd recently shut down business amid allegations fraud and embezzlement of customers’ money.
