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will be considered illegal.
Non-material and nonexistent commodities and commodities and services saleable in future will also be banned.
Only commodities and services approved by the government can be sold through direct sale only. The government or firms authorised by the government can change the list of saleable commodities and services.
The draft law contains a list of commodities and services which MLM companies can sell directly. They will not be able to recruit people by sellingproducts.
Household utensils, electrical and electronics, home appliances, toiletries, and herbal products are on the list attached to the draft law.
Any sub-standard goods without wrappers cannot be sold, and if the rule is violated, fines and jail terms of different tenures have been proposed.
Shady MLM companies are cheating people across the country by offering them double return on deposits in less than a year, high monthly returns and huge profitsfrom product sales.
These companies hire fancy offices and create eyecatching websites to lure people into their traps and then disappear after swindling people out of crores of taka.
According to the Joint Stock Companies and Firms registrar, some 70 MLM companies are operating in the country. Nearly two-thirds of them are involved in
banking, which is illegal. The restoffervery fewproducts.
Both concepts charge between Tk 1,000 and Tk 10,000for membership.
The home ministry in May sent a report to the finance ministry, Bangladesh Bank and other ministries concerned.
The report mentioned the pyramid-like and circle-like methods MLM companies use in Bangladesh and said such methods had been banned elsewhere in the world.
The report said the existing MLM companies were creating obstacles to enacting the law by using their influence.
The home ministry report said the MLM companies sponsored different sports events and cultural functions like Bangladesh Premier League T20 in the name of social responsibility. They invite politically influential people to their events, including ministers and advisers to attract people and cheat them.
Several companies of Destiny Group allegedly embezzled a huge amount of money but only Tk 190.04 crore was found in its frozen bank accounts, according to a central bankreport.
Last week, Bangladesh Bank sent a report on Destiny Group to the finance ministry.
Ofthe37 firmsofthegroup, the central bank found Tk 5,132.46 crore was deposited in 282 bank accounts of three firms—Destiny 2000 Ltd, Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd and DestinyTree Plantation.
Later Tk 5,113.95 crore