Staff Reporter :
Family members of the controversial ecommerce platform Evaly’s former managing director and CEO Mohammad Russel and ex-chairman Shamima Nasrin want to be included in the board of directors in order to take over the charge of the company. They expressed their desire in the court on Wednesday.
After hearing the statements submitted by the family members of Russel and Nasrin, the court asked them to place their plan regarding the Evaly Limited as an affidavit in the court on February 15.
The High Court bench of Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order after hearing them.
Nasrin’s mother Farida Talukder, father Rafiqul Alam Talukder and company’s former executive director Ehsan Sarwar Chowdhury on Wednesday came to the court and said that they want to buy all the shares, owned by former managing director and CEO Mohammad Russel and ex-chairman Shamima Nasrin, of the company.
And they also want to be included in the court appointed board of directors to be part in running the company.
Earlier on February 7, the same court asked fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters in laws of ex-CEO Russel and ex-chairman Nasrin to show cause within two weeks as to why all kinds of bank accounts of the fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters in laws of ex-CEO Russel and ex-chairman Nasrin shall not be frozen.
Following a petition filed by a customer, the same High Court bench on September 22 in 2021 directed the concerned bodies to be restrained from selling, transferring or otherwise dispose of the assets of the Evaly Limited till disposal of the case filed with the High Court.
Later the court on October 18 in 2021 formed a 5-member body to oversee the overall management and the company affairs of the Evaly Limited.
The court appointed Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a former judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, as the chairman of the company and Mahbub Kabir Milon, an additional secretary of the government, as the ex officio managing director.
