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A petition was published in the Blue House National Petitions Bulletin, calling for “Make Lee Jae-yong, vice president of Samsung Electronics, a freedom body so that he can dedicate himself to management.”
According to the Blue House National Petitions Bulletin on day 1, the petitioner, who introduced himself as one of the individuals and an educator, said: “I think we should create a body of freedom so Vice President Lee Jae-yong can focus in management “.
The petitioner argued: “Vice President Lee Jae-yong has been the subject of investigations, trials and prison sentences in recent years. In this difficult situation, he suffered too much mentally and physically from investigations, trials, prisons, etc. in this difficult situation. , and he reflected and fully apologized. ” .
And he added: “How can a company reject the request for living power? It is not voluntary, but responded to the request for power, and the passive side is strong, so there are many parties to understand and regret that no entrepreneur does not I could have rejected in that situation. ” Additional.
Cheong Won-in evaluated Vice President Lee Jae-yong as a person who took the lead in earning foreign exchange as an export force by growing Samsung Electronics as the world’s number one company under the late President Lee Kun-hee.
“(Vice President Lee Jae-yong) is in charge of a large part of Korea. In particular, Samsung Electronics is in charge of a large part of the taxes in Korea and provides numerous jobs in Korea, including direct employment of hundreds of thousands of people, as well as indirect employment. ” He emphasized. “It was not directly related to Samsung, but when I saw Vice President Lee Jae-yong appealing to patriotism and filial piety with tears at the trial, my heart was unknowingly furrowed.” The president appealed: “Please give me a favor.”
With more than 20,000 people agreeing to the petition, the manager’s review exceeded the standard of 100 people with prior consent.
In February 2017, Vice President Lee Jae-yong was charged with bribing former President Park Geun-hye and Choi Seo-won, who was in the “ low-key situation ” in February 2017. The court convicted the first trial to five years in prison and the second to two years and six months in prison and four years of probation, and the case was destroyed and repatriated on appeal by the Supreme Court in August 2019.
On December 30 of last year, the special counsel sentenced Vice President Lee to nine years in prison in a trial for pretrial and pretrial detention. It generally takes about a month to receive the sentence after the decision hearing, so the final sentence is expected to take place between the end of this month and the beginning of next.
YTN PLUS reporter Jeong Yoon-joo
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