China News Service, October 26. According to Korean media reports, on the 26th local time, Samsung Electronics’ vice chairman Li Zayong’s "trustworthy case" was sent back for retrial on the 26th local time and the court session will be reopened.
Lee Jae-yong will not appear in court on that day because of the death of his father, Lee Kin-hee, the late chairman of Samsung Group.
According to reports, on the afternoon of the 26th local time, the Criminal Division 1 of the Seoul High Court will convene a preparation date for the retrial of Lee Jae-yong's suspected bribery and other cases.
Data map: Lee Jae-yong, the "successor" of South Korea's Samsung Group, leaves the Seoul Detention Center.
After the public trial of the case on January 17, the special prosecution team applied for the change of the trial department on the grounds of "preferential trial of the defendant".
On September 18, the South Korean Grand Court (the Supreme Court) rejected the special prosecution team's application for recusal against the trial judge of Lee Jae-yong's "confidential intervening in politics" trial judge Jeong Soo-young.
This time, the case will be tried again after 9 months.
Therefore, the case will continue to be heard in the existing trial department.
Although the trial on that day was designated as the preparation date for the public trial and the defendant was not obliged to attend, the court made an exception and sent a subpoena to Li Zairong on October 6.
However, on the 25th, Li Zayong's father Li Jianxi passed away, and he submitted a statement of reasons for not participating in the court on that day.
The data picture shows Lee Kin-hee and Lee Jae-yong, the chairman of Samsung Group.
According to reports, if the court believes that Li Zairong’s presence is necessary, it may also cancel the trial on the day and rework the trial schedule.
In 2016, Lee Jae-yong was involved in the scandal of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye's "girlfriends doing politics".
The special inspection team proposed that Lee Jae-yong donated and paid bribes to a consortium controlled by Park Geun-hye's "best friend" Choi Sun-sil to obtain convenience for inheriting Samsung.
He was charged with many charges, prosecuted, sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment in the first instance, but was released on probation in the second instance.
On September 1, 2020, South Korean prosecutors filed a non-detention prosecution against Lee Zayong.
Lee Jae-yong was born in 1968 and is the only son of the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Gun-hee.