SEOUL: SK Holdings Co Ltd’s chairman Chey Taewon was jailed for four years on embezzlement charges, a Seoul court ruled after South Korea’s president-elect vowed tougher action against corrupt business leaders.
Chey, who stepped down in December from his position as chairman of the country’s third largest conglomerate SK Group, was sent straight to prison.
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