Samsung unit raided in probe into group chairman's alleged embezzlement


Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee and his daughter, Lee Boo-jin, are seen in Seoul in 2013. Kun-hee has been bedridden since suffering a heart attack in 2014. – EPA pic, October 18, 2017.

SOUTH Korean police raided the construction unit of the giant Samsung Group today to investigate allegations that company money was diverted to remodel the conglomerate chairman’s house, officials said.

A spokesman for Samsung C&T – one of the group’s biggest subsidiaries – confirmed about 10 investigators were searching its construction headquarters in Seoul’s southern suburbs.


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