Three vice presidents of Samsung Electronics, who were accused of destroying evidence related to Samsung Biologics' suspicion of fraudulent accounting, were sentenced to jail.

The 24th Criminal Consensus (Deputy Judge So Byeong-seok) of the Seoul Central District Court issued a sentence of two years imprisonment for the vice president of Samsung's financial team, accused of evicting teachers and others.

Mr. Kim and Vice President Park, who belong to the Samsung Electronics Business Support Task Force, were sentenced to one year and six months in prison.

Baek Mo and Seo Mo, who belong to the same project support TF, were sentenced to one year and six months in prison and three years probation.

Samsung Bioepis Yang, who is sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison, 3 years probation, Lee, and 1 year in jail, 2 years probation, and Samsung Bio surrogate Ahn, who is sentenced to 8 months in prison and 2 years probation. received.

The Tribunal also ordered 80 hours of community service for five defendants who were suspended.

"The guilt is not light because the group-wide destruction and concealment of evidence at the group level on the case of accounting fraud, which is a national concern, is not light." I did.

They have been accused of instructing or operating Samsung Bio and its subsidiary Samsung Bioepis to conceal and manipulate internal documents since May last year when prosecution investigations of Samsung Bio's suspected accounting accounting were expected.

Samsung Bio and Samsung Epiphone were found to have deleted and searched for words such as' JY '(Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong),' Merger ',' Buy-in ', and' Underroom 'on employees' laptops and mobile phones.

The company reported that the company changed the author of the Biosimilar Commercialization Plan document prepared by the Group's Future Strategy Office bio business team to the Financial Supervisory Service.

The prosecution also confirmed that Samsung Bio and Samsung Episys hid the company's public server on the factory floor or employee's house.

(Video coverage: Lee Jae-sung, Video editing: Park Seung-yeon)