SEOUL: Samsung Group will discover the fate of its de facto leader on Thursday (Aug 29) as South Korea's Supreme Court rules whether to uphold the ...
SEOUL: Samsung Group will discover the fate of its de facto leader on Thursday as South Korea's Supreme Court rules whether to uphold the bribery conviction of Lee Jae-yong, in a scandal that unseated the president and trained public ire on corporate untouchables.
He was freed after a year in detention when the appellate Seoul High Court halved his sentence and suspended it for four years. Both Lee, who denies wrongdoing, and prosecutors appealed again. The Supreme Court can uphold Lee's conviction and suspended sentence, or ask the Seoul High Court to reconsider its judgment. That could lead to the conviction being overturned, or to a tougher sentence, legal experts said.
The government is led by President Moon Jae-in, a liberal former human rights lawyer elected on an anti-corruption platform after Park's impeachment and weeks of protests.The case centers on whether three horses donated by Samsung Group for the training of Choi's daughter, a competitive equestrian, should be considered bribes aimed at winning Park's favor.
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