Friday, December 26, 2014

Washing machines affair has consequences: lead investigator raided by LG – n-tv.de NEWS

Washing machines affair has consequences: lead investigator raided by LG – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Friday, December 26, 2014

 
 
 


 
 The Ifa 2014 – Exhibitors will present the latest technology. Suddenly some of the Group LG employees take a diabolical plan: to sabotage the doors of its competitor Samsung washing machines – so the accusation. A raid is now to bring enlightenment.

 


 

As an employee of the South Korean company LG washing machines are said to have damaged their competitors Samsung at a product demonstration in Berlin, there has been in the LG’s headquarters in Seoul a raid. The investigators documents and computer hard drives were seized, reported the South Korean news agency Yonhap. The white goods factory in South Korea Changwon LG had been searched. “Our office is examined by investigators,” said an LG spokesman.

Samsung had brought against several high-level LG employees, including LG Appliances boss Jo Seong-Jin, defamation, criminal damage and obstruction of business submitted. The company alleges that the LG employees to have damaged the IFA in Berlin in September Samsung machines intentionally.



Security cameras are video evidence provide

According to Samsung surveillance cameras had recorded as several men who were later identified as the LG employee, the door hinges Samsung washing machines destroyed. Samsung LG also raises defamatory statements about allegedly defective Samsung washing machines.

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LG denied the allegations in a statement. The company was “concerned that its business and its brand image suffers seriously by the unilateral and outrageous view of its competitor.”

The South Korean electronics giant Samsung is the world leader in mobile phones and flat screen TVs. Its smaller rival LG is one of the largest household appliance manufacturers worldwide. The two companies for years already deliver a fierce PR battle.

  Source: n-tv.de
 


 
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