Notice For Merchants

Awareness for Refraining From Accepting Payment against Prohibited Goods & Services
bKash Limited (bKash) has been providing mobile financial services in accordance with the guidelines set by Bangladesh Bank and laws of the country. The goodwill of bKash highly depends on its business partners, customers and key stakeholders. Thus, to keep its’ business goodwill intact, bKash encourages its Merchants to refrain themselves from accepting payment through bKash against goods & services that are prohibited as per the laws of Bangladesh. Therefore, merchants’ are hereby advised not to accept any payment through bKash for the below listed prohibited goods and services.
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SL. |
Prohibited Goods and Services |
SL. |
Prohibited Goods and Services |
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1 |
virtual currencies (e.g. Bitcoin, Lite coin) |
21 |
Illegal/unregistered medicine, Aphrodisiac, Anesthetic, psychotropic or not prescribed medicine; |
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2 |
Counterfeiting Government stamp, instrument for counterfeiting Government stamp, Counterfeiting a property mark used by a public servant |
22 |
Human organs |
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3 |
False weight or measure |
23 |
Smuggled goods |
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4 |
Adulteration of food or drink intended for sale, noxious food or drink, adulterated drugs, drug as a different drug or preparation |
24 |
Unregulated Pawn services |
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5 |
obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation or figure or any other obscene object whatsoever |
25 |
Illegally obtained proceeds or properties as result of a crime |
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6 |
obscene objects to young person (under the age of twenty years) |
26 |
Hacking services or accessories, Malwares |
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7 |
State secret documents and information including illegal or confidential political products and publications |
27 |
Sex determination (without medical reasons) |
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8 |
Goods marked with a counterfeit trade mark or property mark |
28 |
Protected species |
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9 |
Making a false mark upon any receptacle containing goods, Tampering with property mark with intent to cause injury |
29 |
Unauthorized Auction sites and services |
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10 |
Services or products that infringe on personal privacy (e.g. online activity monitoring), Sales of personal information (e.g. identity card information), Illegal sale of financial information (e.g. bank accounts, bank cards) |
30 |
Pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing of unauthorized product/services and/or without license and/or multi-level marketing and network business management through Digital Commerce or e-commerce |
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11 |
Illegal or unregistered fund-raising activities |
31 |
Foreign exchange services |
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12 |
Horror Comics, Obscene and subversive literature (both physical and digital) including such pamphlets, posters, newspapers, periodicals, photographs, films, gramophone records and audio and video cassette tapes, etc. Also, pirated books , films/audio/video content (both physical and digital) |
32 |
Any explosives and/or explosives combustible substance through digital commerce without the license of Department of Explosives |
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13 |
Goods (both physical and digital) bearing any words or inscriptions of a religious connotation the use or disposal of which may injure the religious feelings and beliefs of any class of citizens of Bangladesh |
33 |
Acid without license from the Deputy Commissioner (DC) |
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14 |
Goods bearing any obscene picture, writing inscription or visible representation |
34 |
Chemical weapons |
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15 |
Military or police equipment, explosive substance as defined under the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 |
35 |
Formalin and any other formalin producing substance prescribed by the Government without a license. |
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16 |
Manufacture of any arms, ammunition or military stores, except under a license |
36 |
Any sub-standard drug and/or medicine which is not registered under the Drug (control) Ordinance, or any medicine in contravention of the provisions of the Ordinance (schedule), or any drug which is adulterated, misbranded, spurious or imitated and/or any medicines and medical supplies selling through Digital Commerce without having license of Department of Drug Administration |
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17 |
Any form of pornography or vulgar audio/visual contents, products, channels, and publications, Pornographic and vulgar erotic services and Pornography equipment used for the purpose of producing, storing, capturing or displaying pornography or any other technology-based device |
37 |
Selling any piece of copper or bronze or of any other metal or mixed metal, which, whether stamped or unstamped, is intended to be used as money |
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18 |
Gambling, Gambling devices and accessories, Lottery, Lucky draws and/or any participation or organization of online betting/gambling |
38 |
Selling import license other than an import license issued under the Export Bonus Scheme. |
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19 |
Poisonous or hazardous chemicals restricted by Government |
39 |
Any unlicensed services from the competent authority will be treated as restricted service. |
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20 |
Lock picking tools and accessories |
40 |
Any other goods and services declared prohibited by Bangladesh Government, Regulator or bKash from time to time. |
If any merchant is found to be involved in receiving any payment for the above listed prohibited goods & services - bKash reserves the right to terminate the accused merchant account without any prior notification and/or may take appropriate legal action against that merchant.