Amazon deployed secret strategy to avoid regulators in India, says report
The e-commerce giant had a few big sellers on its India platform and used them to circumvent rules
New Delhi — Amazon has for years given preferential treatment to a small group of big sellers on its India platform, publicly misrepresented its ties with the sellers and used them to circumvent increasingly tough foreign investment rules that affect e-commerce, internal company documents reviewed by Reuters show.
The documents, dated between 2012 and 2019, are reported here for the first time. They provide an inside look at the cat-and-mouse game Amazon has played with India's government, adjusting its corporate structures each time the government imposed new restrictions aimed at protecting small traders...
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