Samsung bribery scandal in the end of the Li Jianxi family survived litigation

According to foreign media reports, Seoul prosecutors on Wednesday dropped criminal charges against Samsung involved in the bribery scandal politics Samsung executives, including Samsung Group Chairman Li Jianxi. The scandal caused many South Korean business and political elite to thoroughly discredited.

However, in the case of Samsung executives to waive the lawsuit, while the first reported a record of the scandal has been accused of reporters, in addition to the implementation of eavesdropping has also been a security officer.

Samsung executives from the lawsuit is mainly based on two reasons, first of all, the evidence is not sufficient evidence, followed by the incident occurred in 1997, has been a statutory period of prosecution for over 7 years.

At the end of 7 this year, a South Korean television station broadcast a record called "X file", which is said to have been discussed by Samsung's two executives in 1997. The exposure of the scandal once again touched the majority of people hate the political and business collusion sensitive nerves, the voice of the public's attack on Samsung suddenly soared. Li Jianxi in the secret tape after the scandal broke out in the United States, is said to receive drug treatment, prosecutors investigating the scandal of Li Jianxi and other departments, to see whether they are involved in criminal activities, and even banned the Samsung Group executives to travel overseas. Li Jianxi is also involved in the bankruptcy of Samsung has been involved in the automotive sector debt issues, last month, the 26 year old daughter of Li Jianxi's suicide case makes Lee family disputes more complicated.

On Wednesday, the Seoul Department of inspection said Li Jianxi was accused of embezzlement of evidence, Li Jianxi insisted that the money belongs to him, not the Samsung Corp, but also a political donation rather than bribery. In addition, the Department also finds that the statutory prosecution period for 7 years is full, and therefore does not prosecute.

Seoul inspection department senior prosecutor Hwang Kyo-ahn said: "the public prosecutor's office of intelligence agencies of the government in the past few? Illegal interception of politics and business and the judiciary and media professionals to conduct a comprehensive investigation, but also because most of the cases the prosecution period has passed, and many parties have destroyed the relevant records, so check face great the difficulties."

In addition, the first report of Samsung's tape recorder MBC reporter and the South Korean Daily reporter broke the law of communication secret protection by the prosecution allegations.