Lawyers for the jailed heir to the Samsung empire filed an appeal against his conviction on Monday as South Korean media divided on the ruling that put the country’s top business leader behind bars. Jay Y Lee, the de-facto head of Samsung Electronics, was found guilty last week of bribing South Korea’s ousted president Park Geun-Hye and sentenced to five years in prison. Prosecutors have also said they will appeal the court ruling — to seek a harsher punishment for Lee. The JoongAng Daily, a company with close family ties to the Samsung Group, said in an editorial that an appeal by Lee would have “a good case”. The Hankyoreh paper expressed concerns about the “amicable attitude towards Lee and Samsung” from “conservative media and business papers”.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 28, 2017 05:15 UTC