The commerce ministry has sought the central bank's steps to pay back Tk 590 million to the 6,721 customers of the online shopping platform Qcoom.
The ministry has sent a letter to the governor of Bangladesh Bank in this connection.
Currently, a total of Tk 1.65 billion of Qcoom customers are stuck in the payment gateway Foster Payments.
When contacted a senior official of the commerce ministry said: "We are expecting to start to pay back stuck funds to the Qcoom clients concerned very soon as we have received a partial list from the Qcoom and the payment gateway Foster.
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