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| ▲ Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who was accused of bribing former President Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won, is present at the destructive and repatriation hearing held at the Seoul High Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 18th. | |
| Ⓒ Yoo Seongho |
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Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to two years and six months in prison at a remand trial on the 18th and was detained in court. As a result, the Samsung bribery case was ended.
Political circles also published their respective comments. On September 1, last year, when vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong was charged with the suspicion of illegal succession, the Democratic Party of Dong-A-Dong also said, “We will do our best to break the link between corruption and corruption in the history of Korea.” Said. The Justice Party is still criticizing that it has not sufficiently questioned’Lee Jae-yong’s guilty price’, and the Nationalist Party has now issued an evaluation of ending political and political relations.
The power of the people was also silent this time. However, Rep. Choi Seung-jae (Proportional Representative), former chairman of the Federation of Small Businessmen, held a press conference two hours before the sentence and evaluated that the ruling “determines the level of the Korean economy.”
[민주당] Choi In-ho, Chief Spokesman “Lee Jae-yong, I hope you have a devastating reflection time”
“On the 14th, former President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 15 years in prison for bribery, and more than half of this bribe was related to Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s bribery was never light.
As a result, it became clear that the Gukjeong Nongdan incident was a constitutional violation that shook the foundations of the Republic of Korea and raped the people. The parties to the Gukjeong Nongdan case must immediately apologize before the people, and I hope that they spend a time of intense self-reflection.
In his final statement, Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong said,’We will make Samsung a company with the highest level of transparency and morality beyond compliance.’ I did. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong will take responsibility for this statement, and Samsung’s efforts to enhance transparency and morality should not be stopped.
In the future, the Democratic Party will do its best to break the link between corruption and corruption in the history of the Republic of Korea, and the history of tragedy does not repeat itself.”
[정의당] Spokesman Tae-soo Jang, “We are sorry that the court’s ruling is not fair”
“It is fortunate that the chaebol chief had a three-year imprisonment and five years probation for breaking the so-called 3.5 law, and the Compliance Committee was not indulged. Roh is a regrettable decision.
A crime that gave a bribe of 8.68 billion won is a crime equivalent to a sentence of life or more than five years in prison according to the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Economic Crimes. Nevertheless, the judges cut it by half again, applying the lowest five-year sentence.
It is difficult to avoid criticism that the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Economic Crimes, etc. has changed into the Act on Reduction and Punishment for Specific Economic Crimes. Even compared to the ruling that sentenced Samsung C&T employees to four years in prison for embezzling 1 billion won, it is not fair. It is also contrary to the Korean Constitution, which states that all citizens are equal before the law and social special class systems are not recognized. The court ruling was insufficient. However, the repentance of Samsung and Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong should not be lacking.”
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| ▲ Samsung fired worker cheering for Lee Jae-yong’s court arrest, “Justice is alive” Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and arrested in court on charges of bribing former President Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won. Samsung SDI’s fired worker Lee Man-shin, who watched the vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong of Samsung Electronics’ destruction and repatriation trial held at the High Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, said, “The law beat Samsung. The law is equal to everyone,” he said. “Justice is alive. Long live Korea.” | |
| Ⓒ Yoo Seongho |
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[국민의당] Hong Gyeong-hee, Chief Spokesman, “Now, we hope to quit the political relationship and move forward to the future”
“Today, the court sentenced Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong to a two-year sentence in jail for two years and six months in jail. In response to the request of former President Park Geun-hye, a bribe was offered to the vice-chairman Lee, who requested help in the succession of his management rights. We respect the judgment and sentencing of the Korean court.
I hope that our society will break through the old-fashioned chain of political and economic convergence and move forward into the future through this incident. I hope that the cooperative cooperation between the two will not be reproduced in our society through the close relationship between political power and chaebol.
Samsung is a global company representing Korea. As a global company, I hope that this opportunity will establish a transparent corporate ethics, and further, provide an institutional mechanism that will never give in to any unjust solicitations and demands of political power. We hope that Samsung will clear its dark past and move forward.”
[국민의힘] Choi Seung-jae “Today is the day to decide the economic level of Korea, not Samsung”
“I don’t know how today’s trial will come to a conclusion, but the entire business community has been struggling to insist that vice chairman Lee Jae-yong be elected. It is an aspect that raises the voice as if the Korean economy would not return without a vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong. Is it the shape of a self-contradiction that denies the scale and level of the Korean economy?
His managerial successor will stand today at the judgment table created by the late Chairman Lee Kun-hee 25 years ago. In order for the economy to become first-class and bureaucrats and politics to be at least second-class, today’s trial will have to be decided from the standpoint of justice and justice.
Now, politics must also be different. If the company’s arms are twisted and irresponsible sensibility promises are poured out to beg for votes, only the tragedy of vice chairman Lee Jae-yong called’political relations’ will be repeated. This is why we look forward to the moment of fate that will determine the economic level of Korea in today’s trial.”