Jay Y Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, has been convicted of bribery and sentenced to five years in prison, a blow to the heir apparent of the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. A three-judge
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Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y Lee has refused to testify at the bribery trial of former President Park Geun-hye, arguing that doing so risked affecting his own corruption hearing. Lawyers for the de facto chief of the
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he trial of Jay Y Lee, heir to the Samsung Group empire, has featured thousands of pages of documents and…
Korean prosecutors pursuing bribery charges against Samsung heir Jay Y Lee have zeroed in on a five-minute chat with the country’s president as the start of a relationship that put both behind bars. The landmark trial of South Korea’s
The South Korean trial of Samsung heir Jay Y Lee for alleged bribery took an unusual twist on Thursday as prosecutors said the company tried to conceal its gift of a billion won (R12m) horse by exchanging
Samsung Electronics apologised on Friday for its involvement in scandals that have led to the ouster of South Korea’s president and the recall of its Galaxy Note7 smartphones, pledging to improve governance in the face of
There’s a lot going on at Samsung Electronics, what with its chief in handcuffs, an activist demanding more cash, the scent of exploding phones and the hum of self-destructing washing machines
Samsung Electronics’ shareholders will be meeting for the first time since the arrest of de facto chief Jay Y Lee, with questions looming over whether any changes to its corporate structure are in store
For a company that has been mired in negative headlines for months, just about the last thing Samsung Electronics needed was news its smart TVs could be used to spy on users. According to documents released by WikiLeaks, that is exactly what
South Korea’s special prosecutor accused Jay Y Lee and other Samsung Group executives of conspiring to create fake documents to mask millions of dollars in bribes funnelled to a confidante of the nation’s president. Lee, the de facto head of