Evaly’s Rassel, Shamima jailed for three years

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Evaly’s founding chief executive officer Mohammad Rassel, and his wife Shamima Nasrin, former chairperson of the e-commerce platform, to three years’ imprisonment for misappropriating Tk 5 lakh of a customer.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Minhazur Rahman pronounced the verdict in their absence at the courtroom.

The punishment will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, said the magistrate in his judgment.

On January 16 of 2024, Muzahid Hasan Fahim, a customer, filed the case with the same court, bringing allegations of fraudulence and breaching trust against the couple.

According to the case documents, the complainant on February 20, 2021 paid Tk 5 lakh to Evaly for buying a motorbike, but the company did not deliver the bike within 45 days of ordering. Instead, the company provided him a cheque, which was later rejected by the bank, read the case statement.

On January 29 this year, another Dhaka court sentenced the couple to two years’ imprisonment in a case filed over the embezzlement of Tk 14.10 lakh from a customer.

On June 2 last year, a Chattogram court sentenced Rassel and Shamima to one year in jail in a cheque bounce case.

On December 19 last year, Rassel was sentenced to two years in jail and Shamima sentenced to one in a fraud case.

On September 16, 2021, the couple was arrested from their Mohammadpur residence in the capital in a case filed over fraud and embezzlement.

Shamima was released on bail in April 2022, and Rassel on December 19, 2022.