The Justice Department announced that six people have been indicted by a grand jury with conspiring to pay more than $100,000 in bribes to Amazon employees and contracts in order to gain an “unfair competitive advantage” on the giant online marketplace.
Federal prosecutors alleged that since at least 2017, the individuals have used bribery and fraud to benefit third-party sellers by serving as consultants to these sellers and sometimes making their own sales through their own third-party accounts, according to a statement on Sept. 18.
