Lee Jae-Yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul
Lee Jae-Yong, June 8, 2020 : Vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Lee Jae-Yong leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea to go to a detention center after a hearing on the prosecution's request for a warrant for his arrest in this picture taken on June 8, 2020. The court rejected early June 9 the prosecution's request to arrest Samsung Group's de facto leader Lee over the ongoing probe into a controversial merger between two Samsung affiliates and alleged accounting fraud at Samsung Biologics in 2015. Lee Jae-Yong is accused of playing a role in the merger between Cheil Industries Inc. and Samsung C&T, which the prosecutors suspect was designed to help him take over control of the group from his ailing father, Lee Kun-Hee, local media reported. (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/AFLO) (SOUTH KOREA)