Cheque dishonour: Evaly Chairman, CEO get one year jail

CHATTOGRAM, June 02 (UNB): A court here on Sunday sentenced e-commerce platform Evaly's Chairman Shamima Nasrin and CEO Mohammad Rassel, to one year of imprisonment each in a cheque dishonour case.
The court also fined them Tk180, 000.
Judge Md Mohiuddin of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court passed the order on Sunday, Assistant Public Prosecutor MS Hosen Shahed confirmed.
Shahed said, "In 2021, the plaintiff, Jasim Uddin Abid, filed a case against Evaly CEO Rassel and Chairman Shamima alleging cheque bounce. The judge sentenced both of them to imprisonment for one year and imposed a fine equivalent to the amount of the bounced cheque."
Rassel and Shamima were arrested from their residence in the capital's Mohammadpur on 16 September 2021, in a case of fraud and embezzlement.
Shamima was granted bail in April 2022 while Rassel was released on 19 December 2023.