India, June 20 -- UK's Groceries Code Adjudicator or GCA announced the launch of a targeted investigation against e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. over alleged delays in payments to its suppliers.
In a statement, the grocery regulator said the investigation is into whether Amazon has breached paragraph 5 of the Groceries Code, which indicates no delay in Payments, in relation to certain of its practices, and the root cause of any breach.
The GCA said it has reasonable grounds, based on evidence from a range of sources, to suspect that Amazon has done the breaching from March 1 2022 to June 20, 2025.
The investigation will cover the extent to which paragraph 5 of the Code may have been breached, as well as any impact of Amazon's conduct o...