VinFast, a Vietnamese automaker that goals to begin promoting electrical automobiles within the U.S. subsequent 12 months, reported one in all its clients to the police.
His supposed crime?
Complaining about high quality issues together with his automotive on YouTube.
VinFast, in an announcement final week, mentioned the shopper, Tran Van Hoang, created “unfaithful content material” about his VinFast Lux A2.0 that “affected the fame of VinFast.”
Hoang has 455,000 followers on YouTube. He has since deleted the movies, wherein he mentioned he loved proudly owning the automotive however felt the necessity to level out some issues he had skilled.
VinFast is a part of Vingroup, a conglomerate based by Vietnam’s richest man, billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong. The automaker is contemplating a public inventory providing that might worth it at as much as $60 billion.
In a statement to Reuters, VinFast mentioned it had “enough grounds to show that it isn’t only a regular criticism.”
“That is the primary time we have now reported somebody to the authorities so as to shield our fame and our clients,” the corporate mentioned. “If the same incident have been to happen when working in the US, we will even submit a request to the authorities in accordance with native regulation, and to guard our authorized rights.”