Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics and the de facto head of the whole Samsung Group, was thrown behind bars in January for embezzlement and bribery. - AP
SEOUL (The Straits TImes/ANN): To pardon or not to pardon Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong, that is the question troubling South Korean president Moon Jae-in.
Lee, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics and the de facto head of the whole Samsung Group, was thrown behind bars in January for embezzlement and bribery.
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