The company of Otto De Jager, husband of Vietnamese diva Thu Minh, has countered the Gia Han Company with accusations of his own.
Thu Minh's husband accused of cheating firms
The Gia Han Ltd. Company submitted a letter of complaint to the Dong Nai Province Police's Economic Crime Investigation Department, saying that Czech citizen Otto De Jager, husband of singer Thu Minh and director of Global Home SRO headquartered in the Czech Republic, had violated a contract.
According to the petition, Jager signed a contract with Gia Han to import batches of wooden furniture totalling VND11 billion (USD493,000). However, to date, Jager had not settled the payment. Gia Han claimed all of the products met the quality standards set by Global Home SRO.
On August 15, Global Home SRO sent a press release, claiming that Gia Han had actually violated contracts.
According to the Global Home SRO, they worked with Gia Han from 2012 to June 2015. However, in their latest transactions, Gia Han faked Global Home's verified mark of quality for products. Gia Han Company is accused of passing on low-quality products and materials to Global Home. As a result, Global Home had to pay customers USD250,000 in compensation and lost several contracts due to damaged reputation.
"The negotiations with the Gia Han Company didn't reach any consensus so we had no choice but to terminate the contract, return the faulty products, and stop paying Gia Han in order to offset our losses," Global Home said in the statement.
Global Home emphasised that they only stopped paying for low-quality shipments and demanded Gia Han pay compensation for their losses. The release went on to say that the police in Dong Nai Province had also investigated and concluded that the firm had not violated any contract terms or committed fraud.
"This is a civil dispute about obligations to fulfil a business contract. If Gia Han Company thinks that we owe them money, they should follow proper procedures to sue us. But in fact, they haven’t filed any lawsuit even more than a year after the contract was terminated," it said.
Global Home suggested that Gia Han knew about their wrongdoings and wouldn't achieve their desired result if they started a lawsuit. In addition, the press release claimed Global Home still had good relationships with many furniture manufacturers that Gia Han thought were suing Global Home.
"We strongly criticise such dishonest and illegal activities by the Gia Han Company, the owner of the Gia Han Company and other related members. We won't make any concession on this case."
