Jailed Samsung heir Lee vows support for compliance committee

Seoul: Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung Group, has vowed his continuous support for the group’s compliance committee in his first message in prison, as he seeks to keep up his pledge of improving law-abiding culture at South Korea’s top conglomerate.

Lee was sentenced to two and a half year in prison by the Seoul High Court on Monday in a retrial of a bribery case involving former President Park Geun-hye.

The vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co. was put behind bars again less than three years after he was allowed to walk free.