Samsung’s shenanigans have reached a new height of hilarity as it transpired that the Chairman of the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption was one of the alleged recipients of bribes from Samsung’s slush fund, according to revelations disclosed by the Korean Catholic Priests' Association for Justice (CPAJ).
Compounding Samsung’s woes is the resignation of the head of its legal department, Lee Jong-wang, who is said to have handed in his lawyer’s license to practice to the Korea Bar Association and ending his legal career.
That seems rather an extreme reaction to the revelations of one of his former subordinates in the Samsung legal department, Kim Yong-chul, who first blew the whistle on the alleged bribery of officials in the government prosecuting office.
Another of the alleged recipients of bribes is, according to the CPAJ, the head of the Central Investigation Department at the Supreme Prosecutor’s office in Seoul.
Lee Jong-wang is reported to have said that Samsung is: ‘The most relatively clean organisation he has ever seen’, which sounds a less than totally enthusiastic endorsement of Samsung’s conduct.
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