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Bribery retrial opens for Samsung scion

Lee Jae-yong is vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and was jailed for five years in 2017 for bribery, embezzlement and other offences. [AFP]

The heir to the Samsung empire appeared in court Friday for a retrial over a sprawling corruption scandal that threatens to disrupt management at the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker.

Lee Jae-yong is vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics -- where profits have been falling for months -- and was jailed for five years in 2017 for bribery, embezzlement and other offences in connection with the scandal that brought down South Korean president Park Geun-hye.

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