Special prosecution emphasizing’equality’… Jaeyong Lee’s “passive response”
A special prosecutor asked for nine years in prison at a repatriation trial by Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who was charged with bribing former President Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won. The special prosecutor asked for a strict judgment, emphasizing’the rule of law’ and’the principle of equality’. Vice-Chairman Lee’s side appealed for a good cause, saying, “I passively responded to the President’s request.”
This is reporter Oh Sun-min.
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The Special Inspection Team Park Young-soo believes that Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong actively offered bribes to succeed in management.
He sought 9 years in prison for Vice Chairman Lee, and asked Jung Yu-ra to confiscate the word’Raushing’, which he applied.
The special prosecutor said, “The principle of rule of law and equality is to treat and treat the same things the same and different things differently.”
It was also said that this trial was the Hwaryong Jeomjeong, which will mark the finale of the trial in the case of Gukjeong Nongdan.
The lawyers argued that the nature of the case was a case of paying a bribe in response to the president’s demands for abuse of authority.
Vice-Chairman Lee, who got the chance to make a final statement, said, “Samsung will not be controversial again over these issues. I will take responsibility and keep the promises made to the people. I will walk to the degree.”
Vice-Chairman Lee was prosecuted in 2017 on charges of bribing former President Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won.
The trial lasted three years and ten months.
Vice-Chairman Lee was sentenced to five years in prison at the first trial, but was released after receiving a probation of four years after two years and six months in prison at the second trial.
In August of last year, the Supreme Court’s all-in-one consensus repatriated the second trial ruling.
The purpose is to admit an additional 5 billion won for bribes and embezzlement.
The sentence for destruction and repatriation will be made on the 18th of the following month.
(Video Design: Bae Yun-ju, Hwang Su-bi)