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SEOUL: The de facto chief of South Korea’s Samsung business empire was convicted on Monday over a huge corruption scandal and jailed for two and a half years, in a ruling that deprives the tech giant of its top decision-maker. Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electro­nics, the world’s biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, was found guilty of bribery …

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