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Leadership vacuum puts Samsung on alert with Lee detained
Feb. 17, 2017
Samsung Group, South Korea's biggest business conglomerate, is on high alert on Friday as the group's de facto leader, Lee Jae-yong, has been formally detained over his alleged role in a widening corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.Special prosecutors investigating the scandal filed an arrest warrant against Lee, vice chairman of the group's crown jewel, Samsung Electronics Co., earlier this week for a second time in a month with expanded charges. Samsung he