Samsung executive sentenced to 2.5 years in prison

Salt court sentenced heir to empire to 2.5 years Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, in the retrial he was subjected to for his involvement in the corruption plot of former President Park Geun-hye.

The High Court of Salt has decided to impose Lee this sentence for corruption of the friend of the former president Choi Soon-sil, nicknamed “Rasputin”, within a vast network of favors which scandalized the country and caused the exit of Park of the capacity and the imprisonment.

Lee, who was present at the verdict, was taken from court to a detention center, where he returned less than three years after being released when his previous conviction was overturned, according to local Yonhap news agency.

Lee He was sentenced to five years in prison in August 2017 for corruption aimed at obtaining favorable treatment from the authorities, embezzlement, concealment of assets abroad and perjury.

However, in February 2018, an appeals court reduced his sentence and allowed him to be released from prison, although his case took a new turn in August 2019, when a higher court ruled on new charges. .

The prosecutor had asked for 9 years in prison for the heir of Samsung during the retrial, to set an example in this high-profile case involving the infamous “Rasputin” plot.

The employer is also tried by another body Cell, for charges of accounting fraud and price manipulation of stock market assets allegedly committed during the controversial merger of two group companies in 2015.

Several irregularities are attributed to this 2015 merger, including an alleged offense of accounting fraud whose objective was to consolidate the leadership of Lee Soon after, his father, group chairman Lee Kun-hee, suffered a heart attack that left him in a coma until his death last October.