Amazon gets £65k fine for trying to jet potentially exploding batteries – on a £1billion turnover

Internet giant Amazon has been fined £65,000 of its £1 billion yearly turnover for giving approval for dangerous goods to be jetted around the world. The company was guilty of ‘systematic failure’ when it gave the go-ahead flammable aerosols and potentially unstable lithium-ion batteries to be packed onto aircraft. Fortunately all of the parcels were intercepted by Royal Mail and UPS before they could actually be shipped on planes. The firm were convicted at Southwark crown court of four separate…