Samsung chief get prison time in $6.4m bribery scandal

Samsung chief Lee Jae-yong has been convicted of bribery and embezzlement, and has been sentenced to five years in prison. Lee had been accused of paying out $6.4m in bribes so as to secure the support of former South Korean president Park Geun-hye and avoid government challenges to a controversial deal Samsung was making. Four other Samsung executives were implicated …