i-Citymall.com Filed RM1.6 Million Lawsuit Against a Malaysian Blogger

May 2, 2011 - PRLog -- Haridas Saminathan, 24, a part time blogger has been sued for RM1.6 million by the ICT solutions company NextCom Studio Technologies for the reputation damages and slandering the company’s newly launched e-commerce platform (www.i-Citymall.com)
Many of Malaysian customers were quite surprised when contacted by NextCom Studio Technologies to provide their written testimonials to be handed as a proof & witness on behalf of the company to support its lawsuit against false allegation made by the blogger.

The company is filing RM1.6 million lawsuits on the blogger, and RM8.2 million lawsuits against a forum administrator in a separate charge for publishing the humiliating false allegations and defamation of the company's business practice
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According to the lawsuit, the false and defamatory information includes the following:
a. Claims that the search engine giant Google has banned and is banning from its search engine listings websites of i-Citymall.com clients because of the search engine optimization strategies used by Plaintiff.
b. Claims that i-Citymall.com is selling Apple products at cheap price
c. Claims that Plaintiff has started several new businesses under different names to hide its identity;
d. Claims that two new businesses started by Plaintiff are under investigation by several agencies;
e. Claims that and/or innuendo that Plaintiff is engaged in extortion of its clients because of the techniques used by Plaintiff in optimizing search engine listings;
f. Claims that Plaintiff's business constitutes a scam and that clients of Plaintiff are "victims;"
g. Claims that Plaintiff stole from defendants;
h. Claims that the business practices of Plaintiff constituted some kind of actionable violation of the rights of its clients and that the filing of a class action lawsuit against Plaintiff by its clients was imminent; and
i. Claims that Plaintiff is offering fake products and misleading information about the products.

The owner of the forum website may also be sued for comments posted to his site by readers. In a reaction to the lawsuit, the forum website administrator  gave the following information: "I can confirm that our team has removed the thread started by the blogger on our website due to violation of use.”

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NextCom Studio Technologies provides global trading solutions and social merchandising to multi-channel retailers and shoppers. Its e-commerce platform (www.i-citymall.com) is used for collecting; organizing, structuring and moderating product reviews that helps online retailers significantly boost their sales. User-generated content and community drives the highest sales uplift in the industry, and in addition to working with more than 240 distributors worldwide.