Lee Jae-yong

• South Korea set to pardon Samsung heir, other business tycoons

  Lee Jae-yong secured a pardon Friday of his conviction for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government.

  World

  Aug 12, 2022
  
• South Korea indicts Samsung boss on finance charges over controversial merger

  Prosecutors decided to indict Jay Y. Lee due to the gravity of manipulating the capital market over the 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates that helped him assume greater control of the group.

  World

  Sep 1, 2020
  
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• Billionaire Samsung heir sentenced to 5 years in prison in South Korea

  A South Korean court sentenced the billionaire chief of Samsung to five years in prison for bribery and other crimes in a stunning downfall for the heir to South Korea's biggest family fortune and a global consumer electronics empire.

  World

  Aug 25, 2017
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• Head of Samsung faces arrest in South Korean president bribery scandal

  In a departure from the leniency typically given South Korean big businesses, prosecutors on Monday requested the arrest of the de facto head of Samsung Electronics, the country's most valuable company, in an influence-peddling scandal that has toppled the country's president.

  Money

  Jan 16, 2017