US prosecutors claim six people bribed corrupt Amazon insiders to rig the the web giant's Marketplace in their favor and leak terabytes of data including some search algorithms.
Amazon’s digital bazaar is open to third parties who can push their products on the e-commerce giant’s store, and even have Amazon do their deliveries. Amazon vets such vendors – who are known as “3Ps” – and then polices their activities on its platform.
In an indictment [PDF] filed late last week, the Dept of Justice asserted that the six defendants paid over US$100,000 to “complicit Amazon employees and contractors.” The DoJ claims at least ten Amazonians took the crooked coin and “baselessly and fraudulently conferred tens of millions of dollars of competitive benefits on hundreds of 3P seller accounts that the defendants purported to represent”.
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