Prosecutors raided the headquarters of LG Electronics on Friday as part of a probe into whether the South Korean company had damaged the washing machines of rival Samsung Electronics at retail stores in Germany, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The raid comes amid an increasingly bitter rivalry between the two companies which compete in home appliances, TVs and smartphones, and ahead of the world's biggest consumer electronics show at Las Vegas in January. Samsung had asked the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office to investigate LG employees who Samsung says were seen deliberately destroying several of its premium washing machines on display at two stores in September ahead of the IFA electronics show in Berlin. On Friday, investigators searched the Seoul offices of LG Elec's home appliance head and others and secured documents and computer hard disks related to the IFA fair, Yonhap said. They also combed through LG Electronics' home appliance factory in the south-eastern city of Changwon, the report said. An LG Electronics spokeswoman declined to comment on the Yonhap report, while prosecutors were not immediately available for comments.
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