HC is concerned by the failure to submit reports on fraudulent e-commerce companies.
The next hearing is scheduled for November 23. The High Court expressed its displeasure on Tuesday after the authorities in question failed to submit reports on the efforts taken to combat money laundering by e-commerce companies and the policy for collecting tax and VAT from them on time.During a hearing on three writ petitions filed by victims of e-commerce fraud, the HC bench comprising Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Md Mostafizur Rahman expressed their displeasure. The bench stated that the court will treat the complaint seriously because the government bodies involved had not responded to the High Court's notice.The court ordered Deputy Attorney General Bipul Bagmar to notify the Attorney General. It then scheduled the next hearing for November 23 and delayed the deadline for submitting reports until then.On September 30, the court ordered the Ministry of Commerce, the National Board of Revenue (NBR), and the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) to produce separate reports on e-commerce platform money laundering by November 8. The court requested that the BFIU tell it of the efforts taken against money laundering by e-commerce firms, as well as NBR's stance on collecting VAT and tax from these businesses.The court also enquired about the operation of the 16-member technical committee for the e-commerce sector established by the Commerce Ministry.The petitioners were represented by lawyers Mohammad Shishir Monir, Md Anwarul Islam, and Pallob Kabir M Humaun, while the state was represented by Deputy Attorney General Bipul Bagmar.Anwarul Islam, a Supreme Court lawyer, had filed a writ case on September 20 seeking a directive from the court to establish an impartial e-commerce monitoring institute to defend the interests and rights of e-commerce customers.On September 22, SC lawyer Mohammad Humayun Kabir filed a petition asking the court to order the formation of a probe committee to identify the responsible individual or government authority whose negligence or failure has resulted in monetary losses for lakhs of consumers from well-known e-commerce sites such as Evaly, e-orange, Dhamaka, Daraz, Qcoom, Aladiner Prodip, Alesha Mart, and Dalal Plus.Thirty-three e-orange customers filed a writ on September 23 to seek their money back from the corporation. Advocate Shishir Monir filed the petition, which calls for a travel ban on senior officials and authorities of risky e-commerce enterprises like e-orange, as well as the formation of a commission to protect the interests of both customers and businesses, led by economists, IT specialists, and stakeholders.
Dark Web sells data to 63 million customers
The hacker team Shinyhunter is stealing customer data from multiple platforms and selling it on the Dark Web. These platforms have data of a total of 63 million subscribers. News Engadget.About 30 million of these data have been hacked by hackers from the data dating app Jusak. And the printing service has stolen the data of about one and a half crore customers from chatbooks. Hackers have even stolen data from a media website called the Star Tribune.According to the report, the data includes one million data from the South Korean fashion and furniture industry and 30 million data from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Although the accuracy of this database has not been confirmed. But researchers in the hacker community believe Shinyhunter's data is true. ShineHunter also claimed that they had seized 500 gigabytes of data from Microsoft's personal GitHub rethogeter. They also carried out hacking activities in the online store Tokopedia this month.
Case filed against 11 people under digital law for spreading rumors
RAB-3 has filed a case against 11 people including information technology technologists, bloggers, expatriate journalists and cartoonists at Ramna Police Station under the Digital Security Act for spreading rumors and creating confusion in the minds of the people.In this case already, information technology and state thinker Md. Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and businessman and writer Mostaq Ahmed have been arrested.The other accused are expatriate journalists Tasnim Khalil and Shahed Alam, Minhaj Mannan, Sayer Zulkarnain, Ashiq Imran, Philip Schumacher, Swapan Wahid, and blogger Asif Mohiuddin.Ramna Police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Monirul Islam said the case was filed under their Digital Security Act on Wednesday (May 7th).According to the statement of case, RAB-3 has reviewed and seen that the admin of IM Bangladeshi (written in English) page Sayer Zulkarnain, I Kishore, Ashiq Imran, Philip Schumacher, Swapan Wahid, and Mostaq Ahmed have been running the Facebook page for a long time.From this Facebook page, attempts are being made to spread propaganda and confusion with the intention of tarnishing the image of the Father of the Nation, Liberation War of Bangladesh, epidemic, and the image of the state/government. Despite knowing propaganda or lies, they were spreading various information including rumors through social media. RAB has mentioned that this is creating confusion, instability, and chaos among the people. In the statement, RAB has given links to various posts.
