S. Korean appeals court releases Samsung heir after one-year detention

Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, leaves a detention center in Uiwang, South Korea, on Feb. 5, 2018. A judge at the Seoul High Court Monday sentenced Lee Jae-yong, an heir apparent of Samsung Group, the country's biggest family-controlled conglomerate, to two and a half years in prison with a stay of execution for four years. (Xinhua/Lee Sang-ho)