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Korea’s Samsung Scandal Deepens

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Nov 06, 2007
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In an episode that shows how deeply one giant corporation’s tentacles extend into Korea’s legal, advertising and industrial sinews, accusations are snowballing over a slush fund of as much as US$1 billion-plus, allegedly controlled by Lee Kun-hee, the chairman of Samsung Group, and used to bribe scores of prosecutors and to attempt to influence the cour…

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