SEOUL: The de-facto leader of South Korea's sprawling Samsung group Lee Jae-yong was convicted Tuesday of illegally using the anesthetic drug propofol, the latest legal travail to beset the multi-billionaire.Lee — the vice-chairman of the world's biggest smartphone maker Samsung Electronics and according to Forbes the world's 238th richest person — was fined 70 million won by the Seoul Central District Court, a spokesman said.The sum is around 0.0006 percent of his estimated $10.
'The quantity injected is very high and the nature of crime committed is not light considering the social responsibility the defendant bears,' judge Jang Young-chae said according to Yonhap news agency.'But he has confessed to the injection and has never been convicted of this crime before.'He fined Lee 70 million won and ordered him to forfeit 17 million won in assets, urging him to 'adopt exemplary behavior that your children will not be embarrassed by'.
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