Embezzling Tk 1,100cr: E-orange CEO, two former owners on 5-day remand

A Dhaka court yesterday placed three people, including two former owners of e-commerce platform E-orange, on a five-day remand in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk 1,100 crore.

The accused are former owners of eorange -- Sonia Mehjabin and her husband Masukur Rahman -- and chief executive officer Md Amanullah Chowdhury.

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Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan passed the order after Aminul Islam, inspector of Gulshan Police Station and the case's investigation officer, produced them before the bench with a 10-day remand prayer for each.

In the remand prayer, the IO said the accused schemed and misappropriated around Tk 1,100 crore from customers. So the three need to be remanded to find out information on the other accused and to know where they transferred the money.

Defense, however, submitted petitions seeking bail along with the cancellation of the remand prayer, saying that they were implicated in the cases to harass them falsely.

Upon hearing both sides, the magistrate turned down their bail pleas and placed them on remand.

On August 17, Sonia and Masukur were sent to jail after the couple surrendered before a Dhaka court, seeking bail in the case while Amanullah was arrested on August 18 from the capital's Gulshan.

A customer filed the case against the five on August 16 over embezzlement of nearly Tk 1,100 crore, alleging that the platform did not deliver products he purchased on April 28, according to police.

In the case statements, the complainant said the products were supposed to be delivered within the agreed period but it did not happen.