Samsung's Jay Y. Lee leaves court after bribery trial

Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee left Seoul High Court on Friday after the start of a bribery trial that could result in a tougher sentence. The Supreme Court overturned in August part of an appeals court bribery conviction against Samsung's de facto chief, who had been given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence for seeking favors from former president Park Geun-hye. Lee, vice chairman of the group's flagship company Samsung Electronics Co, has already served one year of detention. But walked free last year after the appellate court halved a lower court's five-year jail sentence and suspended it for three years.