The Commerce Ministry on Monday started refunding Tk 59 crore to the customers of Qcoom, an e-commerce company, which got stuck at the payment gateway. Among 6,721 Qcoom customers who did not receive their ordered products despite full payment in advance, 20 customers officially got their money back. Senior Commerce Secretary Tapan Kanti Ghosh inaugurated the refunding drive at the conference room of the Commerce Ministry. Tapan Kanti Ghosh said 20 customers received Tk 40,02,413. He said they decided to provide a unique ID number for each e-commerce company to get registered after a meeting with several ministries. "Hopefully, we’ll be able to start it in the next 15 days." Read: Stop taking extra fares on public transport, HC asks BRTA He said, "The most important thing was that the customer neither got their money back nor received the products, they wanted the money back. I wanted the opinion of the Law Ministry about those companies against whom cases have been filed.”

Police arrested popular radio jockey Humayun Kabir Nirob alias RJ Nirob, head of sales (communications and public relations) of E-commerce platform Qcoom in a case filed over fraud. Confirming the information, Hafiz Al Faruq, additional deputy commissioner of Tejgaon division told UNB that Nirob was arrested  early hours of Friday  from his house at Nobodoy Housing in Adabor after a customer of Qcoom filed a case against six people, including Nirob, at Tejgaon Industrial Area Police Station,." Read: Owners of e-orange.shop sent to jail over fraud case A Dhaka court  placed him on one-day remand for police quizzing, Hafiz  added. On October 4, police arrested  Qcoom's chief executive officer Ripon Miah on charges of fraudulence and embezzlement. Read: Evaly CEO, chairman arrested from Mohammadpur residence Later on the day, a Dhaka court placed him on two days' remand, in connection with the case filed at Paltan Police . These arrests come at a time when the country’s e-commerce sector has been rattled by a plethora of scams of different nature, most infamously that of Evaly.