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Court suspends detention of CJ chairman for three months
By Korea HeraldPublished : Aug. 20, 2013 - 20:20
A local court accepted a request Tuesday by the chairman of food and entertainment conglomerate CJ Group to temporarily release him from jail for hospital treatment.
The Seoul Central District Court decided to suspend implementing the confinement of Lee Jay-hyun for three months from Tuesday, taking into consideration the recovery time from kidney transplant surgery.
But Lee‘s place of stay will be limited to his home and the Seoul National University Hospital, where he will go under operation on Aug. 29, the court said.
Lee has been behind bars since early last month under a court-issued arrest warrant pending trial on charges of creating a massive slush fund.
The CJ chairman’s defense lawyers later requested for a temporary suspension of his custody, submitting a doctor‘s written statement that said the chairman needs a transplant operation due to a chronic kidney disease and opinions from other medical experts.
“Lee currently seems to be experiencing difficulty in living a normal life,” Judge Kim Yong-gwan said in the verdict. The court recognized that he needs to get the transplant surgery “as quickly as possible.”
Media reports say the nation’s 10th-richest man is suffering from chronic renal failure and that he is planning to get a kidney transplant from his wife.
Lee has been staying in a hospital ward within the Seoul Detention Center on the southern outskirts of Seoul since early this month due to worsening health.
Last month, CJ Group said in a press release that chairman Lee has multiple illnesses such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol in addition to the kidney disease.
The Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of muscles in the foot, lower leg and hand.
The 53-year-old tycoon was indicted on July 18 on charges of creating slush funds worth hundreds of millions of dollars and evading taxes in the process, according to prosecutors.
He is facing multiple charges such as embezzlement, tax fraud and dereliction of duty, they said. (Yonhap News)
The Seoul Central District Court decided to suspend implementing the confinement of Lee Jay-hyun for three months from Tuesday, taking into consideration the recovery time from kidney transplant surgery.
But Lee‘s place of stay will be limited to his home and the Seoul National University Hospital, where he will go under operation on Aug. 29, the court said.
Lee has been behind bars since early last month under a court-issued arrest warrant pending trial on charges of creating a massive slush fund.
The CJ chairman’s defense lawyers later requested for a temporary suspension of his custody, submitting a doctor‘s written statement that said the chairman needs a transplant operation due to a chronic kidney disease and opinions from other medical experts.
“Lee currently seems to be experiencing difficulty in living a normal life,” Judge Kim Yong-gwan said in the verdict. The court recognized that he needs to get the transplant surgery “as quickly as possible.”
Media reports say the nation’s 10th-richest man is suffering from chronic renal failure and that he is planning to get a kidney transplant from his wife.
Lee has been staying in a hospital ward within the Seoul Detention Center on the southern outskirts of Seoul since early this month due to worsening health.
Last month, CJ Group said in a press release that chairman Lee has multiple illnesses such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol in addition to the kidney disease.
The Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of muscles in the foot, lower leg and hand.
The 53-year-old tycoon was indicted on July 18 on charges of creating slush funds worth hundreds of millions of dollars and evading taxes in the process, according to prosecutors.
He is facing multiple charges such as embezzlement, tax fraud and dereliction of duty, they said. (Yonhap News)
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