{"id":2433,"date":"2021-08-09T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/samsung-boss-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-bribery-sentence\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:59:34","slug":"samsung-boss-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-bribery-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/samsung-boss-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-bribery-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung boss to be freed from jail after bribery sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Lee Jae-yong will be released in South Korea on Friday having served 18 months in prison<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire boss of South Korea\u2019s Samsung empire will be freed from jail on Friday after serving part of a 30-month sentence for bribing former South Korea president Park Geun-hye. <\/p>\n<p>Lee Jae-yong, Samsung\u2019s vice-chairman and de facto leader, will be released on 13 August, the country\u2019s justice minister announced in a live TV briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was caught up in a huge corruption scandal that brought down the government Park in 2016. Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 18bn won (\u00a312m).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/09\/samsung-boss-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-bribery-sentence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/752ae23c273e07838eaa6fb99c612cd83282e01b\/0_39_2477_1487\/master\/2477.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=733468a1be4e68936fecf37ffac93b2a\" title=\"Samsung boss to be freed from jail after bribery sentence\" \/>Billionaire Lee Jae-yong will be released in South Korea on Friday having served 18 months in prison<br \/>\nThe billionaire boss of South Korea\u2019s Samsung empire will be freed from jail on Friday after serving part of a 30-month sentence for bribing former South Korea president Park Geun-hye. Lee Jae-yong, Samsung\u2019s vice-chairman and de facto leader, will be released on 13 August, the country\u2019s justice minister announced in a live TV briefing.<br \/>\nLee was caught up in a huge corruption scandal that brought down the government Park in 2016. Park was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 18bn won (\u00a312m). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Lee Jae-yong will be released in South Korea on Friday having served 18 months in prison The billionaire boss of South Korea\u2019s Samsung empire will be freed from jail on Friday after serving part of a 30-month sentence for bribing former South Korea president Park Geun-hye. Lee Jae-yong, Samsung\u2019s vice-chairman and de facto leader, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/samsung-boss-to-be-freed-from-jail-after-bribery-sentence\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samsung boss to be freed from jail after bribery sentence<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}