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Seoul (dpa) - In a re-launched corruption process, the heir to the Samsung company empire, Lee Jae Yong, has been sentenced to imprisonment again.
South Korean broadcaster and the national news agency Yonhap reported that the Seoul High Court had sentenced Lee to two and a half years in prison.
The background to the proceedings is a corruption affair involving former South Korean President Park Geun Hye.
Samsung is said to have paid large sums of money to a controversial confidante of Park.
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Lee had already been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption in 2017.
A year later the prison sentence was reduced to a suspended sentence.
The proceedings were later resumed.
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