Samsung in shock over de facto leader Lee Jae Yong’s jail sentence

August 26, 2017 3:35 PM

SEOUL (THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – The five-year jail sentence of Samsung’s de facto leader on Friday (Aug 25) drove the world’s largest producer of smartphones and chips into a deeper quagmire, as Samsung Electronics vice vhairman Lee Jae Yong was found guilty of all five charges over his involvement in the corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of the nation’s former president.

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