{
  "id": 19277611,
  "title": "How website offering $100 articles put a UAE-India maritime firm’s reputation at risk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/how-website-offering-100-articles-put-a-uae-india-maritime-firms",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T03:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/business/corporate-news/how-website-offering-100-articles-put-a-uae-india-maritime-firms-reputation-at-risk-1.500741537"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Dubai-based Best Oasis and India's largest green ship recycling yard Priya Blue Industries faced a series of articles alleging money laundering and sanctions breaches. These articles, which named the firms and their owners, appeared on 14 different websites. The companies disputed the reports, challenging them through legal means and seeking to identify the source of the material. In response to the legal challenges, one website offered a $100 fee for a guest post or $120 for a link inserted into an existing article. The companies refused to pay these demands, instead pursuing legal action to have the false information corrected or removed. Some business dealings faced delays and additional compliance scrutiny due to the articles, but the companies were eventually able to resolve the issues with the support of their existing relationships and legal responses. The police in Gujarat registered a non-cognizable case to investigate the origins of the articles and obtained details of the publishers and authors. However, the websites did not provide the substantiation sought, and the companies questioned the identities and credentials of the supposed experts quoted in the articles.",
  "summary": "Dubai: These attacks often follow a simple template. A story making serious allegations against a business appears online. It uses genuine details, such as the company's name, owners, locations or business history, and builds an unverified or misleading claim around them. Then the same story is published across several unrelated websites in different countries, often under slightly altered…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}