Finance
E-commerce Customers will get back the money stuck in e-commerce in January
Dhaka, December 28: The country's e-commerce companies have played a pivotal role in getting products at home during the height of the coronavirus epidemic. But in less than a year, this sector has become the most criticized sector.
Apart from getting products at home, many people invest lakhs of rupees in lucrative offers in e-commerce. Evely was at the top. After the company was called out, the masks of several other e-commerce companies, including QCoom, Dhamaka and e-Orange, were unveiled. Billions of takas of customers got stuck in the payment gateway.
However, the Commerce Ministry has taken initiative to return Tk 214 crore stuck in the payment gateway among the affected customers. In the meantime, the customers will get back the money stuck in the gateway of the organization which is out of the case from January.
It is learned that on December 15, the central bank had instructed the payment gateways to start refunding the money of the e-commerce companies stuck in the escrow service. But there are complications against e-commerce companies. So a letter was sent to the police headquarters last week to inform the ministry of all the cases against the e-commerce companies within seven days for the release of this money.
After receiving this information, the customer will start paying from the first week of January. The matter of Evaly, the most talked about e-commerce company, is being looked after by a committee constituted by the High Court. The committee is headed by former Justice HM Samsuddin Chowdhury Manik. The committee will give their observations on how the issue of Evali will be settled.
