Tiens has been the subject of controversy in Bangladesh, where the company is known as Tianshi (Bengali: তিয়ানশি). According to local news reports, many people in Bangladesh who invested in Tianshi lost their money, and they claimed that the products were ineffective and priced 4 to 20 times higher than comparable products from well known retailers.In 2015, the Government of Bangladesh banned all types of domestic and foreign MLM trade including Tiens in Bangladesh.[15 Between the years 2017–18, the company, having embezzled hundreds of crores of taka from consumers, secretly left the country.