The crackdown against the errant e-commerce players continued unabated as police recently arrested three officials of Qcoom and SPC World, two e-commerce entities, from capital Dhaka on allegations of defrauding customers and money laundering.
Media reports maintained this while adding the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested SPC World’s Managing Director Al-Amin and his wife Sharmin Akter, who is also Director of the firm, from Baily Road even as the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police or DMP arrested the owner of Qcoom, Ripon Mia, from the Dhanmondi area and placed him on a two-day remand.
Ripon has, reportedly, been arrested related to a case filed with Paltan police station under the Digital Security Act and penal code pertaining to allegations of fraudulence, while the MD of SPC World and his wife were arrested in a case of alleged laundering of Taka 1.17 crore even as the CID in the meanwhile filed a case against another e-commerce platform E-orange for laundering Taka 232 crore, while CID’s Special Police Superintendent Humayun Kabir, reportedly, informed the media that they have filed money laundering cases against three e-commerce entities, namely Dhamaka, E-orange and SPC World, while money laundering inquiries were continuing against 20 more e-commerce platforms in the country as well.
