Amazon Sues Probe Agency ED For Going "Beyond Scope And Power"

Thursday, 23 December 2021Newsdesk

Amazon has taken the Enforcement Directorate, or ED, to court seeking to cancel an investigation into its 2019 deal with Future Group for alleged violations of foreign investment laws, sources have said.

New Delhi, 23 December 2021

As per news report of NDTV, Amazon calls the investigation a "fishing and roving" inquiry, saying the ED had sought privileged legal advice and opinions from Amazon and other information not connected to the Future Group deal, sources have said. It said the ED doesn't have "requisite jurisdiction... to investigate issues relating to people joining or leaving the legal team of Indian Amazon entities in India..." "The directions by the ED asking for disclosure of legally privileged documents and litigation privilege information is derogatory of the principles" laid out in Constitution, Amazon said in a 816-page filing. "The investigation is a fishing and roving exercise," it said.

Source - NDTV