Walmart looks into Dunzo CEO Kabeer Biswas’ appointment at Flipkart Minutes

The American retail giant has responded to concerns expressed by some former Dunzo employees over Biswas’ hiring, citing non-payment of salaries.

Walmart is looking into the appointment of Dunzo CEO and co-founder Kabeer Biswas as the head of its Indian subsidiary Flipkart’s quick-commerce segment, Minutes. The Morning Context has seen an email to this effect, sent by the retail giant’s investigation team to some former employees of Dunzo.

The aforementioned email came in response to concerns expressed by Dunzo’s former employees about “hiring a person with…criminal background”, in a separate email to Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy, among others. Earlier this month, Biswas, the sole remaining co-founder of the cash-strapped Bengaluru-based hyperlocal delivery startup, had reportedly quit …

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