Samsung’s heir bags two and half years imprisonment

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A Seoul High Court, on Monday, sentenced sentenced the heir to Samsung’s corporate empire, Lee Jae-yong, to two and a half years imprisonment in a reopened corruption trial, local media reported.

 

The national news agency, Yonhap, reported the court also imposed a two and a half-year sentence on the South Korean broadcasters.

The background to the proceedings is a corruption scandal involving former South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
Again court sentences Samsung heir to two and a half years imprisonment
Samsung is said to have paid large sums to companies owned by a controversial confidante of Park.

Lee had already been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption in 2017.

A year later, the sentence was reduced to probation.

The trial was later resumed.

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