Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, even in prison, urged the Compliance Committee to fulfill its natural role

▲ Jaeyong Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics

Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung’s author, who was sentenced to repatriation by the Gukjeong Nongdan for destruction and repatriation, reiterated his willingness to practice compliance management.

According to Samsung Electronics on the 21st, Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong pledged to continue supporting the activities of the Samsung Compliance Committee through his attorney, and asked the chairman and members to continue to fulfill their natural roles.

This can be interpreted as reaffirming his willingness for compliance management when Lee’s reconstrainment led to interest in his position and role in the Compliance Committee. Destruction trial The court judged that the effectiveness and sustainability of the Compliance Committee were insufficient and sentenced the lawsuit to imprisonment, but it is read that Vice-Chairman Lee will focus on strengthening compliance management regardless of this.

Only at the time of inauguration of the Compliance Committee, concerns were raised that it would undermine corporate activities due to inefficient checks on the’rooftop’. In addition, it was set up at the recommendation of the Destruction Tribunal, and there were doubts, such as whether it would disappear after the vice chairman’s trial was over.

However, in order to alleviate these concerns, Vice-Chairman Lee declared to the public to implement the’Compliance Committee’s recommendations’ and guaranteed independent activities of the Compliance Committee. Accordingly, all executives, including the top management, took the initiative to pledge’compliance practice’ so that compliance with laws and principles can be established as an organizational culture.

Vice-Chairman Lee personally followed the recommendations of the Compliance Committee and took the lead. A representative example is that in May, beyond the recommendation of the Compliance Committee, it directly apologized to the public for past controversies, such as succession, labor, and communication with civil society, and declared that’there is no succession to the fourth generation’ by expressing the will to comply.

At this meeting, Vice Chairman Lee said, “I make a clear promise here that I will not lean on expedients or do anything that is ethically blamed.” “Compliance is a value that cannot be compromised. Will take root.”

At the decision to relinquish the revocation decision on the 30th of last month, Vice-Chairman Lee emphasized that the system will be supplemented to create a compliance system that can be rejected even when unfair pressure comes in.

Vice-Chairman Lee said, “We will not do anything that violates the law and cause misunderstandings. We will make the project support TF operate more transparently, such as requiring more strict compliance monitoring than other organizations.”

Along with this, he said, “No one, including me, will never be an exception to Samsung,” he said. “I definitely promise that I will take responsibility and promote to be reborn as a company with the highest level of transparency and morality beyond compliance.”