Monday's hearing in a Seoul court on charges of fraud and stock price manipulation proceeded without its main defendant.
The vice president of Samsung Electronics, Lee Jae-yong, 52 years old and one of the most powerful men in South Korea had excused himself: he had to participate in the second day of mourning for the death of his father, Lee Kum-hee, the patriarch of the Samsung group and the country's biggest billionaire, ...
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