e-Orange Owner Sonia, Her Husband Land in Jail

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced Sonia Mehzabin and her husband Masukur Rahman, the owners of the virtual store e-orange.shop, to prison for embezzling Tk 1,100 crore from customers.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Abu Bakar Siddique passed the order rejecting their bail pleas.

Earlier, the accused surrendered before the court seeking bail.

On Monday an aggrieved customer of e-Orange Md Taherul Islam filed a fraud case with Gulshan police station in presence of 37 other customers who testified against the accused.

According to the case, on April 21, Taherul ordered a product from eorgance.shop paid in advance. But the online shop failed to deliver the product on the promised date. Neither did it return the money.

The outlet has posted notice on its Facebook page many times seeking more time from the customers to deliver the products. But the products didn’t come.

Besides, the gift vouchers the company provided to shop in different outlets were also not being honoured. They said the company didn’t pay them their money.

Taherul said he filed the case in fear of losing his money after he came to know the company’s ownership has changed hands.