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We made an exclusive report yesterday (7th) that it was the prosecution's judgment that Samsung also started a top-secret project to succeed in management. I will also connect with reporters from the court to see what happened.
▶ [Exclusive] Management Project Succession'Project G'… Jae-Yong Lee,

reporter Jong-Jin Won , who has been involved , the secret project we just talked about, so-called'Project G', Vice Chairman Jae-Yong Lee is a good investor in the United States, and also talked about meeting Warren Buffett.

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Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries merged, Samsung started a top-secret project, Project G, to succeed in management, and Vice Chairman Jae-Yong Lee received a report on this project. The vice chairman may not have known about accounting, I said yesterday that the prosecution is looking at this with the existence of Project G.

However, today it is said that a new content was released in the warrant review.

In May 2014, after Chairman Lee Kun-hee collapsed in a myocardial infarction, he also discussed measures to prepare for inheritance tax along with the succession of the existing management rights. According to this plan, Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong went to the United States and met Warren Buffett, a talented investor. It has been reported that the prosecution has released it.

In order to finance the inheritance tax, it was discussed with Buffett that President Lee Kun-hee's stake in Samsung Life was sold, but the voting rights were guaranteed for 7 years.

The prosecution is said to have grasped this in the investigation process, including the seizure and search of the Goldman Sachs, which served as a mediator.

Prosecutors are known to have pointed out that the vice-chairman, who met Buffett in the United States as part of Project G, did not make sense that he had not been informed of the succession to management.

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prosecution made such material and released this content, but what did Samsung explain about this?

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It has been reported that Samsung repeatedly asserted that Project G-related contents were not reported to Vice-President Lee and that Vice-President had never been reported or ordered illegal contents.

Samsung did not answer the question of SBS reporters asking about meeting with Vice Chairman Lee and Warren Buffett.

The prosecution also pointed out that there was a group-level lobby against members of the National Pension Service's internal investment committee, which reviewed the merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries, but the prosecution alleged that Samsung had never done anything illegal during the merger process. It was said that he was misrepresenting the essence of the facts.

(Video coverage: Doowon Yang, Video editing: Ha Sungwon, On-site progress: Sekyung Kim)