Top Samsung exec cleared on stock fraud charges after 8-year battle
Legally free to return to office

Samsung and its latest flagship, the Galaxy S25 series, is currently under the spotlight, poised to take a spot on our list of the best Android phones money can buy. However, there's another case coming to light now, that the brand would've hoped was brushed under the carpet by now. Samsung's executive chairman Jay Y. Lee has been facing legal proceedings for nearly eight years now, and has finally been acquitted of the charges leveled against him.