File footage of Samsung Group heir as South Korea seeks his arrest in succession probe

Record ID: 1555785

  • Title: File footage of Samsung Group heir as South Korea seeks his arrest in succession probe
  • Date: 4th June 2020
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - JANUARY 18, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** LEE ARRIVING AT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR'S BUILDING LEE WALKING INTO ELEVATOR SURROUNDED BY MEDIA SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE - FEBRUARY 16, 2017) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF SEOUL CENTRAL DISTRICT COURT BUILDING LEE GETTING OUT OF CAR AND WALKING TOWARDS COURT ENTRANCE LEE LEAVING COURT BUILD
  • Embargoed: 18th June 2020 06:39
  • Keywords: Jay Y. Lee Samsung arrest warrant file prosecutors
  • Location: SEOUL, INCHEON AND UIWANG, SOUTH KOREA
  • City: SEOUL, INCHEON AND UIWANG, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Company News Markets,Economic Events
  • Reuters ID: LVA001CGYDU87
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:South Korean prosecutors have requested an arrest warrant against Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, they said on Thursday (June 4), in the investigation of a controversial 2015 merger and alleged accounting fraud in a suspected bid to aid his succession plans.
    The move spells fresh trouble for Lee, who, if arrested, faces a return to jail just a little over two years after being released from detention in February 2018.
    Lee already faces trial on a charge of bribery aimed at winning support to succeed ailing group patriarch Lee Kun-hee, and which involved former President Park Geun-hye, and spent a year in detention until the bribery case was suspended in 2018.
    Prosecutors said they sought Lee's arrest on suspicions of stock price manipulation and audit rule violations, among other offences. Samsung declined to comment.
    (Production: Daewoung Kim, Minwoo Park)
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