Samsung heir Lee Jae Yong has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Seoul High Court. The court saw it as proven that Samsung had paid bribes in exchange for political support for the merger of two company subsidiaries. For this purpose, Samsung has given the organization of a friend of the former South Korean President Park Geun Hye large sums of money.

According to a report by the Korea Herald At the end of the retrial, the court found it inevitable that Lee Jae Yong would be sentenced to prison and taken away while he was still in the courtroom. Lee Yea Yong has already been 2017 sentenced to five years in prison for this affair. But then he was released 2018 after an appeal. In the appeal process, Lee’s sentence was changed to a suspended sentence of two and a half years. 2019 The Supreme Court decided to reschedule the case because it found Lee Jae Yong to be overly lenient and the bribes on appeal were underestimated .

Appeal unlikely to be promising According to the Korea Herald, Lee still had the option of bringing the case to the country’s highest court bring. However, it is likely that the chamber will uphold its last verdict, writes the newspaper.

Lee Jae Yong is the son of the recently deceased, former CEO Lee Kun Hee, who was instrumental in helping Samsung become a high-tech company. Most recently he was charged with stock manipulation and accounting fraud.

(tdi)