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prosecution investigation deliberation committee is currently being held to judge whether it is appropriate to hand over Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jae-yong Lee, who is accused of illegal succession of management rights, to the trial. Connect on-site reporters.

Reporter Kang Chung-wan, the deliberation committee is in progress right now?

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Yes. The Public Prosecutors' Deliberation Committee has been held at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office from 10:30 am.

After the morning meeting, it is known that lunch is currently taking place, and today (26th), judging the feasibility of prosecution of Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jae-Yong Lee, 15 people selected from legal, academic, media, and civic groups attended the meeting. I did.

The prosecution and the vice-president's lawyers handed out their 50 pages of A4 papers to the committee members, and explained their logic in the form of a presentation.

The prosecution believes that Samsung has committed illegalities in the process of merger with Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T in order to succeed in vice president Lee's management power and strengthen his control, and the vice chairman has also reported or instructed the process.

Against this, Samsung is expected to argue that there were no quotes and accounting fraud claimed by the prosecution, and that there was no report or order from Vice President Lee.

Attorney General Lee Bok-hyun, deputy prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor's Office of Economic Crime and Criminal Justice, attended the prosecutor's office, and at the vice-president, lawyers from special prosecutors such as Kim Ki-dong, former prosecutor of Busan, etc. were present.

The deliberation committee will hold a meeting until late afternoon to make a judgment on whether or not to prosecute through a vote.