SEOUL—South Korean prosecutors on Monday indicted the head of the country’s National Pension Service, as investigators tightened their focus on a 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates that has pulled the Samsung conglomerate’s heir apparent into a wide-ranging political corruption scandal. A spokesman for the special prosecutor’s office said Monday that they had indicted Moon Hyung-pyo, the chairman of the National Pension Service,...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 16, 2017 02:12 UTC