For more than a year, Amazon.com Inc and India's Future Group have been locked in a complex legal stand-off that has stalled Future's $3.4 billion sale of assets to rival Reliance Industries, the country's biggest conglomerate.
Amazon ran large ads in leading newspapers headlined "Public Notice" and saying that actions taken by Reliance and Future "have been done in a clandestine manner by playing a fraud on the constitutional courts in India."
The Enforcement Directorate has for months been probing Amazon's $200 million investment in Future Group for suspected violations of foreign investment laws.