Without Attending Trial

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong will not attend a trial scheduled for May 20 to guide U.S. President Joe Biden's tour of Samsung Electronics' semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

On May 19, the Seoul Central District Court decided to proceed with the trial in Lee's high-profile succession case as scheduled but allow him not to attend the trial. This is the first time that Lee, charged with unfair trading, stock manipulation, breach of trust in relation to the 2015 merger between two Samsung affiliates and alleged accounting fraud at the pharmaceutical unit Samsung Biologics, does not appear at a related trial.

The court informed Lee, who attended a trial on May 19, of this decision. Lee has attended the trial in his succession case every Thursday since April 2021. 

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