On Sunday, LG confirmed that it had been indicted in South Korea after its Home Appliance Division President Jo Seong-jin allegedly damaged the doors of several Samsung washing machines in the days leading up to a trade show in Germany. On Monday, LG took the news to the general public, releasing edited CCTV footage that it says shows that Jo did not intentionally damage the doors.

The indictment comes with charges of vandalizing Samsung's new “Crystal Blue” front-loading washing machines, as well as charges of defamation and obstruction of business. LG has called the claims “excessive” and has filed a countersuit.

The drama has unfolded over a number of months, starting in September when Jo and a number of his LG colleagues attended the IFA Electronics Show in Berlin. The executives allegedly went to two retail stores in Berlin before the trade show began and inspected—or vandalized, if you're Samsung—Samsung's $2,700 washing machines. Samsung alleged that after the LG executives' handling, four of the doors of the front-loading washing machines no longer worked.

In a December article in the Financial Times, LG said that its executives did indeed visit Samsung’s shops in Berlin “for market research,” although the company “strongly denied trying to damage the products, saying the machines' doors were poorly built.”

Samsung complained to German authorities, who declined to take action, and LG offered to pay for the four broken washing machines to resolve the situation. But Samsung would not be swayed and went to South Korean prosecutors, who had LG's headquarters in Seoul raided in December, along with a home appliances factory in Changwon. This week, Jo and two other company executives were formally indicted in the two electronics makers' home country.

This morning, LG posted a nine-minute video made from CCTV footage, showing a number of LG executives pushing down on a Samsung washing machine door. The video points out a number of Samsung employees standing nearby, suggesting that they would have stopped the executives if they had been damaging the machine. The footage is spliced with “everyday use” video from Samsung's promotional videos, showing people leaning on their washing machine doors as they gather laundry out of the machine.

Samsung also alleges that LG executives not only leaned too hard on the washing machine doors but also kicked them, according to the International Business Times. The company claims that it has original video of the incident but will not release that video because such a response would be "inappropriate," Reuters reports.

"Sometimes people put their hands on the door to steady themselves when they get their laundry out of the machine... and children might try to sit on the door,” the text of the video reads, according to IBT. "It was natural for Mr. Jo to push the door down to check, especially given that he used to be a technical engineer."

“The truth will be revealed in the courts,” Ham Yoon-keun, a lawyer for Jo, said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal, adding, “It is questionable whether there is sufficient evidence to prove that the president of a global company deliberately destroyed the machines where employees of the competing company were present.” Ars contacted LG and Samsung but did not immediately receive a response. We will update this article if we hear back.

This is not the first spat between LG and Samsung. The two companies notably fought over which was first to develop curved screen technology, as we reported back in 2013.