A Seoul High Court on Monday sentenced the heir to Samsung’s corporate empire, Lee Jae-yong, to two and a half years imprisonment in a reopened corruption trial, local media reported.
The national news agency Yonhap reported also the court imposed a two and a half-year sentence on the South Korean broadcasters.
The background to the proceedings is a corruption scandal involving former South Korean President, Park Geun-hye.
Samsung is said to have paid large sums to companies owned by a controversial confidant of Park.
Lee had already been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption in 2017.
A year later, the sentence was reduced to probation.
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