Summary:
Ahmedabad, Oct 3 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of promoting multinational companies at the cost of the country"s small businesses and demanded a probe by a Supreme Court judge into a report of what he claimed was bribery involving e-commerce giant Amazon.
Singh was reacting to a recent report that Amazon spent about Rs 8,546 crore or USD 1.2 billion in legal and professional expenses in the country between 2018 and 2020.
However, in a letter to Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, Amazon had called the reports inaccurate that "appears to stem from a misunderstanding" of some filings.
"Now, legal fees are either court fees or fees to the advocates.
Even the annual budget of the Law Ministry is only Rs 1,100 crore, and advocates" fees cannot be that high.
We demand an investigation into the allegations by a judge of the Supreme Court.