The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has now shifted its focus to investigating into ecommerce players Amazon and Flipkart and their vendors

This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ AI domain trade■ Ethics code for AI firms■ X monetisation challengesED shifts focus to Amazon and Flipkart ties with sellers 115398206The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has shifted the focus of its ecommerce probe to whether arrangements between Amazon and Flipkart and their vendors violated foreign direct investment (FDI) norms,

Under India's FDI rules, e-commerce platforms are prohibited from exercising control over vendors and are required to operate solely as neutral intermediaries

ED's aim is to know if the ecommerce majors were exercising control over vendors, which violates FDI rules as they can only act as platforms.