Days after a largely positive launch of the Galaxy Note 8, the head of Samsung has been sentenced to five years in jail. Lee Jae-Yong, who has been in charge of the company since his father suffered a heart attack in 2014, was found guilty of bribing the South Korean government. The heir to the empire has been embroiled in the scandal, which saw the impeachment of the country’s president, since last year. His father remains in hospital, making Lee the de facto leader of the electronics giant.
Swiss-based power and automation group ABB cut its 2016 profit report by $64 million after saying that internal controls failed to catch suspected fraud in South Korea.
It revised net income to $1.89 billion, ABB said in its annual report, down from $1.96 billion reported in February. The pre-tax impact was $73 million, less than the roughly $100 million previously reported, due to insurance recoveries.
Swiss-Swedish engineering giant ABB said Wednesday that it had uncovered significant embezzlement at its South Korean subsidiary, which it warned would heavily impact its 2016 earnings. The suspected theft will lead to a pre-tax charge of about $100 million.
The company said it had discovered "a sophisticated criminal scheme related to a significant embezzlement and misappropriation of funds" at the South Korean unit.
The executive was treasurer and one of two integrity ombudsmen for ABB Korea – to whom staff were supposed to report any ethical concerns – according to an online company magazine available on ABB’s Korean website.
Samsung Electronics said on Friday it expected to take a hit of about 3.5 trillion won ($3.1 billion) to its operating profit over the next two quarters from the fallout of its bungled Galaxy Note 7 recall.
The negative impact will not shock otherwise the Korean company that focuses on the sales of other handsets to cushion the failure of Galaxy Note 7.
Investors burned off $20-billion of Samsung Electronics’ market value on Tuesday as its shares closed down 8%, the biggest single-day decline since 2008.
"This is the first time that I have seen a product recall go this badly wrong," financial analyst Richard Windsor said in a note to clients. “When it comes to the damage that it will do to Samsung’s brand, we are in uncharted territory”.
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