UNVEILING THE TRUTH

An investigative probe revealed that the “facts” in a documentary were in fact – fiction!

Investigations
Reputational Risk
Defamation Suit
May 22, 2023, 8:04 a.m.
The Client Problem:

Our client was wrongly implicated in a publicly aired documentary by a global news channel of great repute. The documentary claimed that our client was using child labour in their India operations. All our client could share was a single passport size photograph of three children. There were no other details. Our client needed us to identify the children and investigate whether there was any truth to the allegations.

Our Team’s Solution:

It took four months of a thorough on-the-ground investigation, spanning different cities in India, until the children in the photograph were traced. Our investigators discovered that there was no child labour and that the entire story had been fabricated by an unethical journalist.

CIGAER's Impact:

The client shared our team’s investigative report with the news channel. 

After conducting an independent review, the channel agreed that the client was correct and issued a public apology resulting in the client’s stellar reputation remaining intact.

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How our team not only discovered the truth of the matter but also got a global news channel to publicly apologize to our client.

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