Samsung heir and his run-ins with the law enforcement The Samsung heir was only fined and jailed since abuse of propofol is rare in the country.
Reportedly, users and administrators of controlled substances can both be prosecuted in South Korea. The Seoul Central District Court fined him SKW 70 million (US$60,055) and directed an additional forfeiture of SKW 17 million (US$14580) under the Narcotics Control Act. Yong’s lawyer, however, argued that he took the drug for the treatment of ‘psychological stress’ owing to his father’s hospitalisation and mounting legal cases. Propofol is an anaesthetic medicine, the overdose of which can cause death as seen in the case of Michael Jackson.
He reportedly administered the controlled substance at a plastic surgery clinic in Southern Seoul. The prosecutors said that Lee Jae-Yong took Propofol for ‘purposes other than medical treatments’ on 41 occasions at a plastic during the 5 year period. On Tuesday (October 26), Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-Yong was convicted of drug abuse between January 2015 and May 2020 by the Seoul Central District Court.Īs per reports, he had pleaded guilty to the illegal use of ‘controlled drug’ Propofol.
