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Samsung chairman acquitted all over again.

Today Korea’s Supreme Court cleared Lee Jae-yong of stock manipulation charges related to a merger which helped him take control of the company founded by his grandfather. He was acquitted by a lower court last February, which prosecutors appealed, but the country’s top court sided with the Samsung man.

In 2017 he was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement, but later released from prison on appeal and pardoned in 2022. He’s currently Samsung’s executive chairman.

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