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In connection with the alleged merger with Samsung C & T, the prosecution reported the summoning of former Samsung C & T representative to the suspect status as a suspect. Former CEO Kim is suspected of deliberately dropping Samsung C & T's share price ahead of the merger with Cheil Industries. Senior executives of the Future Strategic Office, including former vice chairman Choi Ji-sung, are expected to be summoned to the prosecution.

Park Won-kyung's exclusive reporter.

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Former Samsung C & T CEO Kim Shin will be summoned to the prosecution on the 7th.

It was only 106 days since the prosecution's investigation into Samsung C & T in September last year.

Former CEO Kim led the merger process with Cheil Industries in 2015 as the CEO of Samsung C & T, and later became the first CEO of Samsung C & T.

The prosecution suspects that Kim has deliberately dropped Samsung C & T's stock price because he did not disclose Samsung C & T's favorable information ahead of the merger.

The 2 trillion won overseas power plant construction orders received before the merger were not disclosed after the merger.

As a result, the prosecution judges that the merger of Samsung C & T was nearly three times more favorable to Cheil Industries, the vice chairman of Lee Jae-yong.

The prosecution plans to focus on the reasons for the prolonged disclosure of Kim's procrastination, and whether he was ordered by the leader.

The prosecution will also summon the former Vice Chairman Choi Ji-sung and former President Chung Choong-ki of the Future Strategy Office, which was the group's control tower after Samsung Summon was summoned.

(Video coverage: Doo-won Yang, Video editing: Hwang-hee)