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Six individuals were indicted on allegations of spending $100,000 in bribes into Amazon contractors and employees as part of a strategy to offer third-party vendors unfair benefits to the Amazon market. Among other matters, the indictment states that Amazon employees who accepted bribes reinstated vendors whose accounts were suspended for supplying dangerous goods, and such employees suspended the vendor balances of deceptive sellers’ competitions.
The US Department of Justice now declared that the indictment passed down by a grand jury in the Western District of Washington. The”defendants paid bribes to ten distinct Amazon workers and contractors,” the DOJ said. In 1 instance, a 31-year-old defendant called Nishad Kunju”approved bribes as a seller-support partner in Hyderabad, India, prior to getting an external adviser who first recruited and paid bribes to his former coworkers,” the DOJ said.
In exchange for bribes, Amazon employees”baselessly and fraudulently conferred thousands of dollars of aggressive advantages upon countless [third party ] seller accounts the Defendants supposed to signify,” the indictment stated. The DOJ stated that employees”helped reinstate goods and merchant reports that Amazon had blocked or suspended entirely by doing business to the Amazon Marketplace,” which”the fraudulently reinstated products comprised dietary supplements which was frozen due to customer-safety complaints, home electronics which was flagged as sterile, consumer products that was flagged for intellectual-property offenses, along with other products.” These fraudulently reinstated seller reports comprised kinds Amazon’d”suspended for distributing merchandise testimonials to mislead customers, making inappropriate contact with customers, along with other offenses of Amazon’s vendor rules and policies of behavior,” the DOJ said.
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