‘Succession solicitation’ bribe provided by the government
At Park Geun-hye’s trial, criminal charges were confirmed
Close to the amount of imprisonment for the first instance of the Supreme Court
Pay attention to whether it will be concentrated in the controversy
material photo.” alt=”Jaeyong Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics. Jaeyong Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics. <한겨레> Material photo.
Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s sentence for repatriation of the Kukjeong Nongdan case will be held at 2:05 pm on the 18th at the Seoul High Court. After going through special prosecutors and first, second, and third trials, Vice Chairman Lee’s situation has already been on a roller coaster due to arrest prosecution, imprisonment, and probation. Since the Supreme Court has already admitted bribery and embezzlement of 8.6 billion won, it has come up with a judgment close to the first trial (8.9 billion won), which was sentenced to imprisonment. Street. The alleged crime that Vice Chairman Lee offered bribes for the purpose of soliciting the succession of Samsung Group’s management rights has already been confirmed through the trial of former President Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won (previously renamed Choi Soon-sil). As the trial continued, the judgment was fluctuating over the nature of bribery of 3.4 billion won for the purchase of three horses and 1.6 billion won for the sponsorship of the Korea Winter Sports Gifted Center, out of about 7.3 billion won in horseback riding support for Choi’s daughter, Jeong Yu-ra. In August 2017, the first trial (Criminal Department of the Seoul Central District Court, Judge Kim Jin-dong) recognized all these as bribes and sentenced Lee to five years in prison. On the other hand, the appeal trial (Criminal Division 13 of the Seoul High Court, Judge Jeong Hyung-sik) in February 2018 recognized only 3.6 billion won in horseback riding assistance as a bribe, sentenced to two years and six months in prison, four years probation, and released Vice-Chairman Lee. However, in August 2019, the Supreme Court alliance again recognized Lee’s bribe at 8.6 billion won and returned the case to the Seoul High Court. Since the judgment of bribery and embezzlement by the appeals court, which was the cause of the sentence of probation, has been reversed, the sentence of Lee’s sentence must of course be heavy. The sentencing of the court is based on the crime with the heaviest sentence, and then the sentence criteria for the remaining crimes are summed up. Vice-Chairman Lee’s punishment criteria for embezzlement (less than 5 billion to less than 30 billion won) under the Specific Economic Crime Weighted Penalty Act is 4 to 7 years, the reduction is 2 years 6 months to 5 years, and the weight is 5 to 8 years. To this, bribes of 100 million won or more (basic 2 years and 6 months to 3 years and 6 months, reduction of 2 to 3 years, weighted 3 to 5 years) should also be added. If the sentence is more than three years in prison, the sentence of probation is impossible. However, when the Seoul High Court Criminal Division 1 (presiding judge Jung Joon-young) proceeded with a destruction and repatriation and proposed the introduction of the Compliance Committee (Quasi-Committee) to prevent corporate crime, controversy about’care for commutation’ arose. There is concern that the junta is used as a justification for maintaining the probation of execution by Vice Chairman Lee. In fact, Vice-Chairman Lee is requesting a probation following a sentence of three years or less in prison, saying that △the damage was recovered from embezzlement, △the degree of violation of the duties was minor, and △the bribery was also at the request of the President. However, Park Young-soo’s special prosecutors’ team sought nine years in prison for the fact that many victims were accrued by Lee’s embezzlement crime, and that aggressive bribery and fraudulent solicitation were acknowledged. By Jang Ye-ji, staff reporter [email protected]