HC allows Evaly to withdraw Tk 2.35cr to run operations
The High Court today allowed beleaguered e-commerce platform Evaly to withdraw Tk 2.35 crore -- deposited at Southeast Bank and City Bank -- for running the company, including paying salaries of its board of directors formed by the court.
During hearing an application, the court also permitted the company to sell or rent its 22 cars for the same purpose.
It asked Bangladesh Bank and National Board of Revenue to give details of Evaly's wealth, including expenditures of its incarcerated chief executive officer Mohammad Rassel and chairperson Shamima Nasrin, to the court.
At the same time, the HC ordered the inspector general of police to deploy law enforcers at Evaly office in the capital's Dhanmondi area to maintain law and order there.
The company bench of Justice Muhamad Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order after holding the hearing on the application submitted by lawyer Morshed Ahmed Khan on behalf of Evaly's board of directors seeking necessary directives, Sayed Mahsib Hossain, lawyer for a customer named Md Farhad Hossain, told The Daily Star.
Following a petition filed by Farhad Hossain, the HC on October 18 last year formed a five-member board led by Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a former judge of the Appellate Division, to run Evaly in absence of its jailed directors as the government finds a way to pay back the controversial e-commerce platform's long line of creditors.
On September 22 last year, the company bench issued an injunction order restraining Evaly, which allegedly has liabilities of more than Tk 1,000 crore, from selling and transferring its assets until further order.
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