Vestas vows to fight US legal action

CEO Ditlev Engel is named on the law suit

A US pension fund has filed a class-action suit against leading wind turbine manufacturer Vestas over what it argues were misleading and fraudulent practices, which led to it and other investors losing money when the company’s share price fell in 2010. Vestas counters that it believes the case is “without merit”.

“The company and the individual defendants intend to defend themselves vigorously,” Vestas says in a statement.

The complaint has been filed in the Federal District Court for Colorado on behalf of the City of Sterling Heights General Employees Retirement Scheme and “all others similarly situated”.

It claims that Vestas “engaged in acts, practices and a course of business that operated as a fraud or deceit upon plaintiff and others similarly situated in connection with their transactions in Vestas”, between 27 October 2009 and 25 October 2010.

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