A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday sentenced Evaly chief executive officer and managing director Mohammad Rassel and his wife and the e-commerce platform鈥檚 chairperson Shamima Nasrin to three years of rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over embezzling money from a customer.
Metropolitan magistrate Md Monirul Islam delivered the verdict in the absence of the couple in the case filed by the customer of Evaly.
The court fined the duo Tk聽10,000 each. In default, they will serve three more months in jail. The court also issued warrants for their arrests as they were tried in absentia.
According to the case statement, Abul Kalam Azad filed the case on December 7, 2023, accusing the couple of taking Tk聽23 lakh from him in 2021 for 11 motorcycles but failing to deliver the products or refund the money.
Following the complaint, the court directed the Police Bureau of Investigation to probe the matter.
On March 27 past year, the PBI submitted a charge sheet against Rassel and Shamima in the case.
This is not the first conviction against the Evaly CEO and the chairperson.
On April 13, they were sentenced to three years鈥� rigorous imprisonment and fined Tk 5,000 each in another fraud case.
On April 6, they had received a three-year sentence in a breach of trust case.
On January 29, 2024, the couple was sentenced to two years in prison in a separate case, while on January 2, the same year, a Chattogram court handed them one year in jail in another customer鈥檚 case.