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On day 1, the prosecution, which has investigated the suspicion of illegal succession of Samsung’s management rights, announces the conclusion of the legal proceedings against the vice president of Samsung Electronics, Lee Jae-yong, and the former and current executives of Samsung . The investigation team is known to override the recommendation of the Prosecutors’ Investigative Review Committee and prosecute Vice President Lee.
According to the prosecution, the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office for Economic Crimes (Deputy Prosecutor Bok-Hyeon Lee) was charged with violating the laws on illegal transactions, market price control under the Capital Markets Law and external audit of corporations in the press room of the Seoul Senior Prosecutor’s Office at 2 o’clock. The results of the research on management will be announced.
The investigation team is reportedly planning to prosecute 11 individuals, including Vice President Lee, Ji-sung Choi, former head of the Samsung Group Future Strategy Office (US Main Office), and Kim Jong-joong, former chief. from the US Headquarters Strategy Team
In addition, it is known that the investigation team applied charges such as illegal transactions and market price control under the Capital Market Law. It is known that he has also decided to apply the charges of negligence in business. Vice President Lee’s succession is believed to have been promoted through a merger that caused damage to Samsung C&T and shareholders.
However, the investigation team is reported to have subsequently decided to decide whether to prosecute Samjeong and Anjin Accounting Firm, who were in charge of consulting the merger between Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T.
For the past year and seven months, the prosecution has been investigating allegations of an illegal merger of Samsung Biologics and Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries. Then, on June 26, after the Prosecutors’ Investigation and Deliberation Committee, requested by Vice President Lee, made a decision on the recommendation to ‘not prosecute Vice President Lee Jae-yong’, the decision on the prosecution.
However, it was reported that both the investigation team and the command recently decided to hold Vice President Lee, who is ultimately responsible for the allegations, legally responsible, considering the materiality of the matter. The fact that the Ministry of Justice recently created Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Team 2 and appointed Kim Young-cheol, Uijeongbu District Prosecutor’s Office, as the team leader, also supports the prosecution’s influential perspectives. . After being sent to the Park Geun-hye government’s Gukjeong Nongdan Special Prosecutor’s Office in 2016, Chief Prosecutor Kim worked in Samsung’s investigation team.
If the investigation team enforces a prosecution, the prosecution’s investigation deliberation committee (investigation deliberation committee) must accept the criticism that it was the first to disobey the recommendation not to prosecute. Still, even if they choose a compromise plan, such as no prosecution or conditional prosecution, it seems that criticism will be difficult to avoid as they are in the way of acknowledging that the investigation conducted in claiming an arrest warrant for Lee is unreasonable.
The prosecution is expected to announce the investigation process and findings during the day’s briefing, and add an explanation of the background that it has not accepted the deliberation committee’s recommendation.
Since the Investigation and Deliberation Committee system was introduced in 2018, the prosecution has followed all eight recommendations. However, the precedent was broken when the investigation team of the ‘Channel A case’ did not accept the recommendation to stop the investigation and non-prosecution against the prosecutor Han Dong-hun and conducted a ‘search for seizure of bullets of meat’ .
