Samsung Heir Lee Jae Yong Granted Presidential Pardon
For the uninitiated, the de-facto Samsung leader has been serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence in a 2017 bribery case involving then South Korea president Park Geun-hye. He spent 18 months in prison before walking out on parole in August last year. As per the parole conditions, Lee couldn’t travel out of the country freely even for business meetings. He needed to obtain permission for the same. Lee also couldn’t take up any formal role at the company....