Lee Jae-yong allowed six visits per month at detention center... Receives S2 security treatment grade

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong is attending the retrial sentencing hearing of the state corruption case at the Seoul High Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on the 18th. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Dongwoo Lee] Lee Jae-yong, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics, who was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison for the 'state affairs manipulation' case, has been assigned the S2 grade, a relaxed security level, at Seoul Detention Center.

According to the legal community on the 17th, Seoul Detention Center held a classification and treatment committee on the 10th and decided to assign Vice Chairman Lee the S2 treatment grade.

Local detention centers determine the security treatment level for convicted prisoners like Vice Chairman Lee. The security treatment is judged based on a classification index consisting of 16 items such as motive of the crime, sentence length, and potential for improvement, and is divided into four levels from S1 to S4.

The S2 grade received by Vice Chairman Lee is the second lowest security level after the open treatment grade (S1), allowing six visits and three phone calls per month.

However, due to social distancing measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Seoul Detention Center, where level 2 distancing is applied, only permits one visit per week even for those with the S2 grade.

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