In a statement, the company’s spokesperson indicated that the accusation was baseless and expressed confidence that matters would be clarified during the legal procedures.
The Reuters According to her information, the lawsuit is expected to be submitted to the London Competition Court of Appeal later this month, where the judiciary must ratify it before the trial begins.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of the UK’s antitrust regulator announcing in July that it was investigating Amazon after it was suspected that the world’s largest e-commerce group had violated competition rules, including how the company chose what products to sell. ” Function.
Amazon is facing similar investigations in several other countries, and recently petitioned the European Commission in hopes of preventing heavy antitrust fines from the European Union.
Amazon previously refused to disclose its product search system to the Australian competition watchdog after the agency received a number of negative comments about the platform’s preference for its own products.
