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Samsung heir to be quizzed again over corruption scandal

By AFP
12 February 2017   |   4:39 am
Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong arrives for questioning by South Korean prosecutors as part of a probe into a corruption and influence-peddling scandal that caused President Park Geun-Hye to be impeached.

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