Input 2021.01.19 18:33
According to the business community on the 19th, there is a controversy over whether to restrict employment after Vice-Chairman Lee’s sentence was executed.
According to the Article 14 Employment Restriction Regulations of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes (Special Economy Act), Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong will remain at Samsung Electronics for five years even after July 2022 when the sentence was terminated. I can’t.”
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In the case of employment restrictions, the sentence of imprisonment is 5 years from the date of execution or pardon (or parole), and the probation is 2 years from the date of termination.
Roh Jong-hwa, an attorney of the Solidarity for Economic Reform, pointed out that even if Lee is released from the deadline in July 2022, he will not be able to serve at Samsung Electronics for five years. “In the case of this vice-chairman, former president Park Sang-jin and former executive director Hwang Seong-soo, who were in an accomplice relationship, were subject to employment restrictions as’corporations closely related to criminal activities’ set out in the enforcement decree of Samsung Electronics, who served at the time of the crime. “I can do it.”
On the 18th, the vice chairman of the Gukjeong Nongdan revocation court sentenced two years and six months in prison for former Vice Chairman Lee and his accomplices, Choi Ji-sung, former head of the Future Strategy Office, and former deputy chief of the US War Office, Jang Choong-ki. Each was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and four years of probation.
The Solidarity for Economic Reform emphasized that “if the decision of Vice Chairman Lee is confirmed, the Ministry of Justice should immediately request the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Samsung Electronics to dismiss Lee.” Instead of waiting for the expiration to be released, the vice-chairman should be dismissed immediately after the Ministry of Justice confirms the decision.
The time when the sentence of Vice Chairman Lee is confirmed depends on whether or not to appeal again. If Lee’s attorney does not appeal again, the decision made on the 18th will be confirmed as it is, and if it is reappealed, the decision on appeal will be postponed.
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Vice-Chairman Lee is also working unpaid, and in October 2019, he was removed from the registered executive.
Regarding this, Lawyer Noh said, “At the time, the Ministry of Justice did not respond properly, so I went over the jurisdiction without a legal dispute,” he said. “At this time, it is necessary to have a legal dispute over the category of’employment’ under the Special Economics Act.”
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In contrast, Kim Seung-yeon, who was sentenced to three years in prison and five years probation in February 2014 for damaging the company through unfair support for insolvent affiliates. Hanwha (000880)The group chairman’s probation ended in February 2019 without amnesty. The two-year employment restriction was applied to Chairman Kim, and he plans to return to management as soon as the employment restriction is lifted the next day.
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