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Jae-yong Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, faced another crisis of arrest. The prosecution, who is investigating suspicion of Samsung merger, has filed a warrant for arrest for Lee and Samsung executives.

Reporter Lee Hyun-young.

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Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office of Economic Crime and Criminal Justice claimed three arrests, including Jae-Yong Lee, Samsung Electronics Vice President, Choi Ji-Sung, former head of Samsung Future Strategy Team, and Jong-Jung Kim, former head of Samsung Unstrategic Strategic Team, etc. is.

Prosecutors believe that they committed crimes by intentionally distorting corporate valuation in the process of Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries in 2015 and manipulating the accounting of Samsung Biologics, a subsidiary of Cheil Industries.

At the time of the merger, the prosecution suspected that the vice chairman's stake in Cheil Industries inflated the value of Cheil Industries, and Samsung C&T's value was deliberately dropped to facilitate the succession of vice chairman Lee Jae-yong at the time of the merger.

The prosecution judged that this process was led by the Future Strategy Office, and that Vice President Lee also reported and ordered the relevant information.

Vice Chairman Lee denied the allegations last week, attending two prosecutors' investigations as a suspect.

Vice Chairman Lee also asked the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office to convene an investigation committee, asking experts from outside the prosecution to judge whether the prosecution's prosecution was valid yesterday (2nd).

In response, the prosecution said, "We are proceeding with the necessary procedures such as the formation of the deliberation council according to the relevant regulations."