Court fines Amazon £65k for trying to send dangerous goods by air - small lithium ion battery

Amazon was fined £ 65,000 for trying to transport dangerous goods by air, including batteries and flammable aerosol.
Earlier this week, the online retail giant was sentenced after being convicted of four air-regulatory charges in the Royal Court of South Wark.
Projects involved include lithium-ion batteries-
The kind that can be used as spare parts for mobile phones and tablets-
There is also a small can of Defu deodorant and Tresemme hair mousse.
Martin Goudi, who sued, told the court: "in the appropriate circumstances, the battery, even the new, undamaged one, may overheat and may cause burns, explosions or fires
"There are very few relatively minor violations," said Judge Michael sad ".
He said the jury's decision reflected "the result of systemic failure, despite being caused by human error ".
The judge added that he had to take into account the "substantial resources of the company ".
Amazon Services UK
Subsidiaries that are subject to prosecution-
Turnover was slightly lower than 1bn in 2015, with a profit of £ 38 m.
The fee includes four shipments from January 2014 to June 2015.
When the jury failed to rule on six other charges, Amazon was excluded from another charge.
These items were found before the goods were scheduled to take off by Royal Mail and were seized before arriving at the plane.
Amazon UK service was sued by the Civil Aviation Authority for violating aviation regulations.
The court heard about Amazon's attempt to ship lithium-ion batteries to Jersey the day before 7 January 2014 and to ship flammable gas aerosol to Romania on a similar date.
Another shipment was shipped to Ireland the day before July 17 of the same year, which contained another aerosol, while Amazon illegally attempted to send another two lithium-ion batteries to Northern Ireland during the month of May 12-6.
From 2013, Royal Mail sent a letter to Amazon on possible violations of the warning.
In a statement after the guilty verdict, Amazon said that security is an "absolute priority" and it is confident in its own development of a process to detect potential transportation hazards, and will continue to work with the CAA.
The company paid £ 11 in the UK last year.
The tax of 9 m is 5. 3bn in sales.
Last year, Amazon's global sales topped the dollar for the first time.