Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee is surrounded by media as he leaves the office of the independent counsel in Seoul, South Korea, January 13, 2017. Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via REUTERS
SEOUL (Reuters) - Jay Y. Lee, who heads South Korea's massive Samsung Group, was given a $5 box meal for lunch and did not sleep in over 22 hours of questioning in a corruption scandal involving impeached President Park Geun-hye.
Lee, who has a net worth of $6.2 billion and is the third-generation leader of the country's biggest conglomerate, or "chaebol", left the special prosecutors' office in southern Seoul on Friday morning in what appeared to be the same suit and tie he'd worn when he entered a day earlier.
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