2013, and Rohit Chadda left in August 2015, soon after which allegations of corporate fraud started flying.

Investors who have evaluated Rocket Internet companies for funding say they were not comfortable with the shareholding structure. "How do you invest in a company where an investor sitting in Germany holds a 90 per cent stake?," one such investor said, declining to be identified.

Several people who have worked with Rocket Internet say the Samwer brothers, who run the firm, underestimated the vibrancy of the venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem in India. While in Europe and Southeast Asia the company did not face much competition, India was a different case.

"They did not understand that aggressive spending of marketing dollars alone will not work in India. And the teams here needed much more1967 war, when it became Washington's strategic asset in the Middle East. It has been argued in recent years that Israel ceased serving American interests after the end of the Cold War and instead has become a burden for Washington. The alleged divergence between Washington's continuing support for Israel and its real strategic interests has been attributed to the baleful influence of the Israel lobby.

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