Ministry working to refund Evaly customers’ money: Munshi

Commerce minister Tipu Munshi has said he got a directive to refund the money of Evaly customers.

The ministry is working to prepare a guideline and checking the information of customers, and the legal procedure is underway in this regard, he told reporters on Monday.

The minister was talking to the journalists after a high-level meeting of the committee formed by the government to monitor e-commerce activities.

Sources at the ministry said the Bangladesh Bank (BB) has gathered the updated information of Evaly’s accounts with Tk 5 billion deposited.

Of the amount, the central bank also got information of customers involving Tk 2.14 billion paid to Evaly from 1 July, 2021 till the closure of its business operations.

The central bank could not gather the information of the remaining of Tk 2.86 billion paid to the Evaly, according to the sources.

Regarding Destiny and Jubok, the minister said, “Both the organisations have some assets and we can return at least half of money of their customers if the assets could be sold legally.”

Adviser to the prime minister on private sector investment Salman Fazlur Rahman, Posts and Telecommunications minister Mustafa Jabbar, state minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak and representatives of the ministries concerned and agencies were present at the meeting.