Orion Community has filed two separate defamation lawsuits, every seeking Tk500 crore in damages, against Desh Tv for airing “wrong and defamatory reports” on 17 and 24 September.
“The lawsuits – Swimsuit No-130 and 131, dated 25 September – were filed with the 1st Joint District Assume Court, Dhaka, following the network’s broadcast of baseless allegations relating to Orion’s six vitality vegetation and its flagship project the Jatrabari-Gulistan Flyover,” the conglomerate said in a press assertion issued today time (25 September).
Orion said the Desh TV reports falsely accused the group of embezzling govt funds and laundering money in a international nation the utilization of political connections, all while failing to produce electricity from its vitality vegetation. “In addition, they falsely accused Orion, alleging shareholder elimination, escalated project costs from Orion Infrastructure Restricted.”
The Orion press assertion also said that Desh TV failed to correct kind the said inaccuracies despite the business group issuing both a proper rejoinder and a correct kind leer, leaving “Orion no preference but to comprehend correct kind action to defend its popularity”.
“Orion Community has consistently operated in corpulent compliance with national rules, supplying 76.9 billion kWh of electricity to the national grid since 2011 through its six cutting-edge
vitality vegetation,” reads the assertion.
“Its Energy Buy Agreements (PPAs) align with those of over a hundred other vitality producers in Bangladesh. Accusations of misappropriating loans and transferring funds in a international nation are categorically wrong, as a1l monetary transactions were clear and interior Bangladesh,” the conglomerate said.
Orion said that it has consistently honoured its monetary obligations, without a political or exterior affiliations influencing its business operations. “These claims, at the side of allegations of shareholder elimination, project price escalations, and fund mismanagement against Orion Infrastructure Restricted, are entirely fabricated.”
It said such “defamatory reporting” poses a menace to the credibility of Bangladesh’s first a success Public-Private Partnership (PPP) infrastructure project and may perchance presumably well deter non-public funding crucial to the nation’s socio-financial construction.
“Orion is dedicated to organising the fact through correct kind manner and keeping those responsible for spreading wrong files responsible,” reads the press assertion.
The group entreated all media outlets to uphold the guidelines of responsible journalism and chorus from broadcasting misleading files that harms companies and national interests.
Earlier, Orion also filed two defamation circumstances, every seeking Tk500 crore in damages, against Fair TV for broadcasting ‘misleading reports’ relating to the the Jatrabari-Gulistan Flyover project.
