Dhaka Bureau: The fraud of e-commerce-based organizations has not stopped. This fraud is going on under different names on digital platforms. After the latest MTFE (Metaverse Foreign Exchange) fraud of 10 thousand crore rupees, a company called C-Finance is getting into a new fraud trap in the e-commerce world. This company called C-Finance is being managed through the most secure app, ‘Telegram’. It has already been alleged that around a hundred crore rupees have been stolen across the country. In this regard, the cheated customers are not getting Kulkinara even after making a GD at the police station. Consumers who have been defrauded have complained, “Police and investigating agency CID’s financial crime unit has completely folded its hands in the investigation.”
In this regard, CID Additional Superintendent of Police Azad Rahman said that the charge sheets for some of the money laundering cases filed against e-commerce-based organizations have been given. Several cases are under investigation. The charge sheets for the cases will be issued soon. When asked about the fraud of the new company named C-Finance, he said that the financial crime unit of CID is investigating the fraud allegations against many e-commerce-based companies. After the investigation, the details of the type of fraud committed by that organization can be revealed.
A person cheated by an e-commerce-based company named C-Finance lodged a GD at the capital’s Banani police station on December 17. GD Plaintiff Zubair Alam Siddique. He lives in house number A-86 in Dakshin Para, Mohakhali. In the GD, he complained that on November 12, through Telegram apps (https://dalas.top) (c-finance), he deposited 15 lakh 7 thousand rupees in various bank accounts for investment according to various job offers. Since then, that server is no longer available. C-Finance, a company operated through Telegram apps, is not traceable.
According to the concerned sources, the police started an investigation based on the GD filed at Banani police station. On investigation, the police found that the money deposited in the name of C-Finance was deposited in several bank accounts. After being deposited in the specified account, the money was handed over to an unknown person at the request of the branch manager of the bank. Several lakhs of rupees were withdrawn from a current account named Nasima Boutiques Gallery at the City Bank Ambarkhana branch in Sylhet. Again, several lakhs of rupees deposited in the name of Mr. Utpal Das at the Dutch-Bangla Bank Chittagong EPZ branch deposited in the name of C-Finance have been withdrawn at different stages. About one hundred crore rupees have been withdrawn from hundreds of accounts in various bank branches across the country in the last two months.
Meanwhile, not a single complaint of Rs 10,000 crore fraud by e-commerce-based firm MTFE across the country in August last year has been resolved. Comilla resident Masud Al Islam started the virtual MLM company MTFE in Bangladesh. About hundreds of cases have been filed in various police stations across the country in connection with these frauds. However, before filing the case, MTFE (Metaverse Foreign Exchange) scam mastermind Masood Al Islam fled to Dubai. CID lists those involved in this fraud syndicate. However, there was no clue to MTFE’s Rs 10,000 crore fraud.
CID’s Financial Crimes Unit sources said that 24 e-commerce-based organizations across the country have been accused of fraud. The CID is investigating 105 cases filed across the country in connection with these frauds. According to the complaint of defrauded customers in the case, fraudsters have embezzled 10 thousand crore rupees. However, 11 cases have been registered against them under the Money Laundering Act. Among these cases, the investigating agency found the truth about the money laundering case of Tk 232 crore, 43 lakh, 3 thousand 786 filed against E-Orange in the Gulshan police station of the capital. Only two of these cases have been able to produce chargesheets. The charge sheets for the remaining nine cases are under preparation.
