The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has determined to not proceed in opposition to Amazon Seller Services Pvt Ltd. (ASSPL) over allegations that the e-commerce big was utilizing vendor knowledge to create knock-offs and increase its personal listings in search outcomes.
The CCI had requested Amazon Seller Services to file data with the Commission and determined to not proceed with the matter after reviewing submissions from Amazon. The CCI clarified, nevertheless, that the choice to not proceed with the case wouldn’t “come in the way, in any manner, in examining the conduct of ASSPL or any of its related entities either past, present or future,” if the agency’s submissions are discovered to be false or if the corporate’s conduct is discovered to violate competitors regulation.
In response, CAIT known as the CCI a “spineless toothless body”. The regulator had taken up the matter suo moto after a report claimed that ‘Amazon copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands’.
