Samsung chief Jay Lee has been arrested
Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee. Reuters SEOUL, South Korea — For Jay Y. Lee, the third- generation leader of South Korea's massive Samsung Group and scion of the country's wealthiest family, home is now a 71-square- foot detention cell with a toilet in the corner behind a partition. He has no shower, only a washstand. His bed is a mattress on the floor. The 48-year-old Lee was arrested early Friday in connection with a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun -hye, a decision that is being reviewed by the country's Constitutional Court. He has denied any wrongdoing. Lee is being held in a single cell and will not be allowed contact with other inmates, said an official at the Seoul Detention Centre , a facility on the outskirts of the city where arrested politicians and corporate chieftains are usually held, along with other detainees. "This is a highly public case , and as you know many involved in the case were already here," the offi...