Logo of Evaly. Picture: Collected
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Logo of Evaly. Picture: Collected
The Ministry of Commerce has sought detailed information from Evaly, an e-commerce platform, about the amount of money stuck at the payment gateways as well as a list of affected customers within 11 December.
The e-commerce cell at the commerce ministry sent a letter to Evaly Chairman Shamima Nasrin last week, Mohammad Syed Ali, deputy secretary of commerce ministry confirmed the matter to The Business Standard.
Co-founder Shamima Nasrin took back the helm of the collapsed Ponzi scheme-like e-commerce platform Evaly in September after having secured a bail.
In a virtual press conference, she promised to clear all its liabilities to hundreds of thousands of customers and merchants from fresh business and investments.
According to a special audit report, Evaly now has products worth Tk25 crore in its warehouse and around Tk28 crore stuck in online payment gateways.
Evaly, under the new board having Shamima Nasrin as the chairman and two of her family members, two representatives of the ministry of commerce and the ecommerce association of Bangladesh, is showing hopes for the revival through a compliant business model – no loss-bearing discounts and no advance from customers.
Shamima urged 45 lakh Evaly customers and 30,000 merchants to onboard for regular buying and selling on the platform as…
