NEW DELHI: A former top Amazon seller in India has asked a judge to quash an antitrust investigation that found the US e-commerce company and some of its sellers breached local competition laws, court records showed on Thursday.
Appario, which has ceased to be a seller on Amazon, on Thursday challenged the CCI in Karnataka HC, saying the investigation report that names it must be “set aside”, court records showed.Antitrust probes conducted by CCI have found Amazon and Flipkart, some of their sellers and smartphone brands, violated local competition laws by giving preference to select online sellers and prioritising certain listings, Reuters has reported.
The findings follow a Reuters investigation in 2021 which showed Amazon gave preferential treatment for years to a small group of sellers on its platform. Amazon denied any wrongdoing.