Six indicted for bribing staff to manipulate Amazon Marketplace

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Scheme involved paying bribes to Amazon employees to gain unfair competitive advantage worth more than $100 million on Amazon's third-party platform

A Grand Jury in the Western District of Washington on Friday indicted six individuals for participating in a scheme that involved paying bribes to Amazon employees to gain an unfair competitive adv...

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