Dhaka, Sept. 18 -- Launched with a paid-up capital of only Tk 100,000 three years ago, Evaly has sunken in the debt of Tk 5.43 billion until July as Rassel employed his "incompetent" relatives, mostly by marriage with Shamima Nasrin, other workers of the company say.

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Rassel and Shamima, also the chairman of the company, on Thursday in connection with a lawsuit filed by a customer alleging fraud.

Arif Baker, the accuser, filed the case claiming that he saw Evaly's advertising and made orders worth Tk 310,000 from the site. The orders have yet to be fulfilled, long after they were made.

Baker contacted the Evaly offices and its CEO over the purchases and he responded with death threats, "frightening" t...