Samsung’s former Chairman pardoned, again

You know what’s awesome about being the head of a South Korean chaebol? You’re untouchable. After being convicted of tax evasion netting a $110 million fine and a deferred 3-year prison sentence, Lee Kun-hee , the former chairman of Samsung Group, has been pardoned by the South Korean government[...]You know what’s awesome about being the head of a South Korean chaebol? You’re untouchable. After being convicted of tax evasion netting a $110 million fine and a deferred 3-year prison sentence, Lee Kun-hee , the former chairman of Samsung Group, has been pardoned by the South Korean government — his second presidential pardon after first being convicted in 1996 of bribing former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo. Why the reprieve?

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