Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong is facing fresh charges of over his role in a 2015 merger deal at the tech giant. South Korean prosecutors accused Lee, 52, of using stock and accounting fraud to try to ...

SEOUL--A South Korean court on Monday acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes involving a contentious merger between Samsung affiliates in 2015 that tightened his ...

Lee Jae-yong was led away from the court in Seoul and onto a bus to prison A court in South Korea has sentenced Samsung's billionaire heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong to five years in prison for corruption.

E-Samsung suffered a 20 billion won loss, or about $18 million. It was a blow to the young heir's credibility. One of his daughters, 26-year-old Lee Yoon-hyung, committed suicide in New York City ...

S outh Korean prosecutors sought a five-year prison sentence and a 500 million KRW fine, equivalent to $375,000, for Samsung Electronics Chief Jay Y. Lee at an appeals court on Monday. The appeals ...