South Ko­rea jails 3 Sam­sung ex­ecs for de­stroy­ing ev­i­dence in Bi­o­Log­ics probe

Three Sam­sung ex­ec­u­tives in Ko­rea are go­ing to jail.

The con­vic­tions came in what pros­e­cu­tors had billed as “biggest crime of ev­i­dence de­struc­tion in the his­to­ry of South Ko­rea”: a case of al­leged cor­po­rate in­trigue that was thrown open when in­ves­ti­ga­tors found what was hid­den be­neath the floor of a Sam­sung Bi­o­Log­ics plant. Eight em­ploy­ees in to­tal were found guilty of ev­i­dence tam­per­ing and the three ex­ec­u­tives were each sen­tenced to up to two years in prison.

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