1 November 2022 10:16 am
Copreus Private Ltd, a company running its business operations at the East Tower of the World Trade Centre in Colombo has obtained an enjoining order preventing two YouTube channel operators from publishing any videos making inferences and implications of an alleged connection between Copreus Ltd and controversial businesswoman Thilini Priyamali, who is currently under remand custody over an alleged massive financial fraud.
The Colombo District Court issued this Enjoining Order against R.A.M.P. Rathnayake and Dananjaya Naranbadda, owners and operators of the YouTube Channel ‘Life Traveler’
The order will be effective until November 14.
Copreus Ltd., a subsidiary of a leading global conglomerate had filed this lawsuit naming these two owners and operators of the YouTube Channel as defendants.
Attorney-at-Law Manoj Bandara and Attorney-At-Law Jinanji Senanayake, instructed by Sudath Perera Associates appeared for Copreus Private Ltd.
Incorporated in Sri Lanka in 2018, Copreus Ltd., a subsidiary of a global conglomerate of the same name, is a leading company in Sri Lanka providing certain BPO services for www.finq.com and www.gulfbrokers.com, two renowned international CFD e-trading platforms.
According to the plaint, the Defendants in the case, R.A.M.P. Rathnayake and W.D. Dananjaya Naranbadda had published two videos regarding Copreus, on The Life Traveler YouTube Channel, making inferences and implications of an alleged connection between Copreus and Thilini Priyamali, a well-known businesswoman in Sri Lanka who has gained notoriety in recent days due to ongoing investigations against her regarding her alleged involvement in committing financial fraud against her clients through her company Thico Group Ltd., allegedly defrauding them of hundreds of millions of rupees.
Dananjaya Naranbadda, the presenter of the YouTube videos, states in the videos that Copreus Ltd. is a company allegedly owned by Thilini Priyamali and alleges that Copreus engages in illegal activities including fraud. The Life Traveler videos regarding Copreus were widely viewed and shared on YouTube and multiple other social media platforms including Facebook.
Copreus Ltd., in its defamation action filed in court against the operators of The Life Traveler YouTube channel, particularly Dananjaya Naranbadda, a well-known media personality, stated to the District Court of Colombo that Copreus categorically denies any connection whatsoever between Copreus and Thilini Priyamali and any statements or insinuations drawn between the two are entirely false, malicious, misleading, and defamatory of Copreus.
In its complaint to the court, Copreus has also stated that there is no evidence to state that such a connection exists between the company and Thilini Priyamali and that the Defendants in the action are attempting to defame Copreus for fame.
District Court Judge Purnima Paranagamage granted this Enjoining Order against R. A. M. P. Rathnayake and W. D. Dananjaya Naranbadda, preventing them, their servants, and agents from continuing to publish and/or allowing them to be published, displayed or hosted on The Life Traveler YouTube channel or any other social media channel or in any other manner, the two videos referring Copreus, or any other material defamatory to Copreus.
Incorporated in Sri Lanka in 2018, Copreus Ltd., a subsidiary of a global conglomerate of the same name, is a leading company in Sri Lanka providing certain BPO services for www.finq.com and www.gulfbrokers.com, two renowned international CFD e-trading platforms.
Copreus has successfully engaged these platforms as clients and provides the platforms with certain outsourced sales, marketing, and intermediary services from Sri Lanka, on their behalf, for their customers located both within and outside of Sri Lanka.
Since its entry into the Sri Lankan business sector in 2018, Copreus has provided the necessary expertise to its clients regarding operating trading accounts with online trading platforms and guiding them concerning CFDs, securities, and other financial instruments. With its global successes and partnerships with world-renowned platforms, Copreus has garnered a reputation for reliability in the field of BPO, in Sri Lanka. (Lakmal Sooriyagoda)