Seoul Court Considers Arrest Of Samsung De Facto Head

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court is considering whether to approve the arrest of Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong, one of the country's wealthiest business leaders, on charges of bribery and other offenses. Samsung is South Korea's biggest family-controlled conglomerate, or chaebol, with businesses encompassing consumer electronics, shipbuilding and life insurance. In 2016, Samsung Electronics had several product recalls, including the discontinuation of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that tended to overheat or catch fire. In one of the most notorious cases, an heiress of the Korean Air founders' family threw a tantrum over nuts served to her on one of the carrier's flights, forcing its return to an airport. Before he was interrogated by lawmakers last month on national TV during the scandal investigation, Lee's first formal public speech was in 2015, when he apologized for a Samsung hospital's role in the spread of a contagious disease.

 

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