Sabeco Receives $ 1 Million In Compensation For ‘Defective Beer Bottle’: New Trial April 20 | News

04/01/2021 Vietnam



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It is expected that on April 20 the People’s Court of District 5 (Ho Chi Minh City) reopen the trial of first instance of a civil case “dispute over compensation for tort damages” between the plaintiff Mr. Nguyen Phuong Du (46 years old, resident in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City) and the defendant is Saigon Beer – Alcohol – Beverage Corporation (Sabeco), with the additional content of a lawsuit claiming from Sabeco $ 1 million in compensation.

Previously, the People’s Court of District 5 scheduled the trial for yesterday 31.3, but postponed it, because the plaintiff’s representative has requested to postpone the trial.

According to Mr. Nguyen Phuong Du’s request, in early September 2018, when he bought a case of Saigon red beer to drink, he had to open a beer bottle with only about half the amount of beer water and had a strong smell.

Later, Mr. Du also discovered a beer bottle with its cap intact, with its seal intact, but within only 1/3 of the liquid. Therefore, Mr. Du kept this bottle as evidence. After that, Mr. Du reported the incident to Sabeco. However, more than half a month later, on September 26, 2018, the Sabeco representative just met with Du to record the incident.

After that, Mr. Duong Van Minh (Deputy Head of Legal Department – Internal Control) promised Mr. Du that Mr. Du would inspect the beer bottle with Mr. Du to determine if the beer bottle belongs to You know, or it’s a fake beer and there’s beer or water or any chemical in the bottle. However, according to Mr. Du, after that, Sabeco did not follow through on this promise.
“The fact that I am a consumer, buying products that do not guarantee the quality of the goods, as described above, has caused me harm,” Mr. Du stated in the application.
In the petition, Mr. Du asked Sabeco to ask the court to force Sabeco to compensate the damages, which include: the value of a bottle of Saigon brand red beer is 10,500 dong; the mental loss equivalent to 10 months of minimum wage in the HCMC area is 39.8 million. The total of 2 compensation amounts is VND 39.81 million.

Force Sabeco to publish a public apology to Mr. Nguyen Phuong Du as a consumer, in 3 consecutive issues, with four newspapers.

Later, Mr. Du added the content to sue and asked Sabeco to compensate $ 1 million. The full amount of money requested by the plaintiff if the case wins he agrees to transfer to the Ho Chi Minh City Consumer Protection Association, for the purpose of protecting the interests of consumers.

Sabeco proposed to suspend the case

During the acceptance process of the case, the People’s Court of District 5 invited the parties to mediate. Accordingly, Mr. Du upheld his claim request, demanding that Sabeco have to settle $ 1 million.

The representative of Sabeco did not accept Mr. Du’s request and asked the 5th District People’s Court to temporarily suspend the case, transfer the file to the CSDT to investigate and clarify Mr. Du’s motives and purposes.

In addition, according to the case file, the 5th District People’s Court has issued a decision to request experience for the exported Sai Gon beer bottle, whether it is a Sabeco product or not.

Consequently, the Ho Chi Minh City Sub-Institute of Criminal Sciences conducted an evaluation and concluded that the classes printed on the beer bottle label were examined, compared to the classes printed on the label of a beer bottle. Similar beer (presented by Sabeco), not printed from the same print copy.



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