CEO of Nirapad.com arrested
Shahriar Khan, CEO of e-commerce site Nirapada.com, has been arrested on charges of fraud in the name of digital commerce. The DB Cyber and Special Crime Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested him after Ishtiaq Ahmed, a victim of fraud filed a case against him under the Digital Security Act, at Adabar Police Station.
DB Additional Commissioner of Police AKM Hafeez Akhter confirmed the matter to reporters at his office on Tuesday (July 13th). He said five computers, two laptops, two hard disks, 13 checkbooks of various banks, 13 Debit/credit cards, 23 SIM cards, server information and other documents used by him were recovered during the arrest.
Regarding the arrest, Hafiz Akhter said that along with the police, the DB cybercrime Division has started a shadow investigation into the case. DB Cyber's Organized Crime Investigation Team arrested Shahriar Khan on July 11, 2021 (Sunday) in the capital's Shantinagar area on the basis of relevant information.
He further informed about the crime of arrested Shahriar: He opened an online-based e-commerce site called Nirapad.com in August 2020 to attract ordinary customers through various glamorous advertisements and extort money from them through a payment gateway (SSL commerce). They entice customers by promising home delivery of mobile phone sets, computers, laptops, refrigerators, ovens and other electronics items within 30 days at a 50% discount.
He further informed that they have about 4,000 subscribers and about 12,000 orders in a month. Through which about 7-8 crore taka was added to his bank accounts. Most of Those who placed the orders were students and low-paid employees. In the initial stage, they delivered some products and posted a positive review on their page with those customers to build trust among the general customers. Later, when they got more orders and advance payments, they started cheating customers by not delivering the products. After a long time, when the customers realized that they have been cheated, they continued to demand redressal through various social media and media. Those who were able to apply pressure were given bank checks for money refund but they could not withdraw the money. Frequent complaints of check dishonor were reported and fraudulent customers are cut off from all communication.
Ishtiaq Ahmed, a plaintiff, filed the case with Adabar Police Station on behalf of the numerous victims.
