[新闻] 三星集团主席偷税指控

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http://www.hjbbs.com/thread-8-483850.htm

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Special prosecutors in South Korea have indicted Lee Kun-hee, the head of the country's biggest industrial group Samsung, on charges of tax evasion and breach of trust. Nine other senior executives were also charged. Along with Mr Li, they'll remain free until their trials.

The company is accused of hiding more than 4 billion dollars in assets and working to secretly transfer control of the company to the chairman's son through illicit accounting practices. But the prosecutors in a statement read live on television said they had found no evidence that Samsung engaged in a systematic attempt to bribe politicians. That claim made by a company insider was what prompted the investigation in the first place. Samsung has always denied all the allegations.

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indict
verb [vn] [usually passive] ~ sb (for sth)| ~ sb (on charges / on a charge of sth) (especially NAmE, law) to officially charge sb with a crime:
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 
  • She was indicted on charges of corruption.
breach
noun [C, U] ~ of sth => a failure to do sth that must be done by law:
  • a breach of contract / copyright / warranty 
  • They are in breach of Article 119. 
  • (BrE) (a) breach of the peace (= the crime of behaving in a noisy or violent way in public) 
  • Selling goods constituted a breach of regulation 10B.
prompt
[verb] to make sb decide to do sth; to cause sth to happen  (SYN: provoke):
  • [vn] The discovery of the bomb prompted an increase in security. 
  • His speech prompted an angry outburst from a man in the crowd. 
  • [vn to inf] The thought of her daughter's wedding day prompted her to lose some weight.

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韩国特别检察组已经以偷税和背信两项罪名起诉该国最大的工业集团三星的主席李健熙。另有九名集团高管也遭起诉。直到审判开始为止,他们和李健熙都保有人身自由。
三星被控隐瞒40多亿美元的资产并通过非法账务手段将公司管理权秘密转给主席的儿子。但是检察小组在直播的电视声明中说他们并没有发现三星试图故意向政治家行贿的证据。正是由某位三星内部人士提出的该行贿指控引发了这次调查。三星一直否认这些指控。

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posted @ 2008-04-20 11:16 marusuki 阅读(22) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 网摘收藏

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该文被作者在 2008-04-23 09:49 编辑过