It seems that in the end, 48-year-old Lee Jae-yong, the vice president of Samsung and heir to the company, was unable to get out of jail. Now a couple more charges are added to those that he already had pending and it is impossible for him now to free himself from going to prison. These new charges against him have come after the investigations carried out and They have made "Jay" unable to avoid jail. Remember that the president of the country herself was removed from office for receiving bribes from Samsung, something really hard for the country.
In this case, the South Korean Prosecutor's Office has requested an arrest warrant for the concealment of fraudulent efforts and for the violation of laws related to the transfer of assets abroad. It is expected that the repercussion of this news will not affect the South Korean company too much, which has had different problems these months, but it is evident that it is a really serious problem and it will surely affect the brand as well as the country and is that Samsung accounts for 23% of the country's GDP.
And it is that the news can really leave the company more touched than it may seem since fraudulent operations have been uncovered for a long time, affecting the entire group of companies that Samsung has in South Korea and its senior positions. What to name the case as "The South Korean Rasputina" comes for the president's friend, Park Choi Soon-sil, and is at the center of the influence peddling and corruption scandal, leading a foundation that received millionaire donations in exchange for the approval of the national pension service.
In short, when the country's Prosecutor's Office began to pull the strings it has been impossible not to order the arrest of Jay Lee, something that we certainly do not want to affect the company but that will be almost impossible to avoid considering what happened. Another stick for Samsung ...